Physicists from Duke University unveil the world's first-ever invisibility cloak. (Thanks, J.K. Rowling!) The elaborate set-up was created using metamaterials, which are capable of manipulating ...

Researchers have successfully developed nerve grafts, currently being trialed as a treatment for Parkinson’s disease, that are invisible to the body’s immune system, according to a new study. It could ...

The material could someday be used in flexible semiconductors, tear-resistant textiles, bioengineering scaffolds, and more.

Physicist John Pendry at Imperial College London was among the first to propose superlenses ... as far as to promise that this kind of invisibility cloak would work for a large object such as ...

Florey researchers have engineered a way to fool the immune system into accepting neural grafts as part of the body, rather than attacking them as foreign objects.

Students at the University of Rochester have developed a clever optical system which allows for limited invisibility thanks to a bit of optic sorcery physics. Almost all invisibility technologies ...

Sahana is a science journalist and an intern at The Scientist, with a background in neuroscience and microbiology. She has previously written for Live Science, Massive Science, and eLife. View Full ...