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 ...

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 ...

Moths’ eyes have a similar anti-glare coating, but this is the first time scientists have ... or even aid a kind of invisibility cloak that similarly distorts light. For her own research ...

To test whether the neurons were functional, the researchers injected them into the brains of rats treated with a neurotoxin ...

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 ...

Scientists might be a step closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. In 2015, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in the US, created a thin ...

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 ...