Researchers say they are rapidly closing in on new types of materials that can throw a cloak of invisibility around objects, fulfilling a fantasy that is as old as ancient myths and as young as "Star ...

INVISIBILITY is a well-worn narrative device – one that has, you might say, made many appearances in fiction. Plato wondered if the mythical Ring of Gyges, which made its wearer disappear, would ...

Scientists might be a step – a teeny tiny step – closer to developing that Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak of your dreams. Researchers at UC Berkeley have created a thin metamaterial that can ...

Ever wish you could just disappear? Turns out this may not be as far off as we thought. In the past decade, scientists have made huge advances in developing super materials that may one day hide us ...