During a visit to, John Pendry said that scientists lack the specific materials they need to design a way to routinely make ...

This study demonstrated the first full-parameter omnidirectional invisibility cloak in free space, which can conceal a large-scale object for arbitrary incident illumination. The implemented cloak ...

We tend to think of invisibility cloaks as science fiction. But one group of scientists has taken a big step toward making ...

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 ...

Sir John Pendry’s lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing ...

Cloaking refers to a physical method that wraps an object in a kind of invisibility cloak, which makes it unrecognizable. So far, cloaking has only been studied with waves—such as light or sound ...

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 ...

We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry Potter books and movies, could soon be reality. We’d be able to disappear just like that. A number of ...