SAN FRANCISCO — In the TV series Star Trek, cloaking devices were first introduced and used by the Romulans that caused their spaceships to become invisible. Is cloaking a reality today? At this ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Earthquakes can be made to bypass buildings surrounded by seismic invisibility cloaks, claim researchers at the University of Liverpool. “Numerical simulations have been carried out ...

Your pervy, Harry Potter-fueled dreams are edging closer to reality, now British scientists have used metamaterials to bend light in a different manner to previous attempts. Now, it works with a ...

Scientists at the Britannia Royal Navy College are working hard to make the idea of an invisible ship a reality using metamaterials that refract light in such a way that it “bends” around an object, ...

A researcher at the University of Texas at Austin has devised an invisibility cloak that could work over a broad range of frequencies, including visible light and microwaves. This is a significant ...

Invisibility cloaks have been a staple of science fiction for decades. And now, researchers think they may be one step closer to bringing the bizarre garments into the real world — all thanks to ...

(Nanowerk News) Imaging allows us to depict an object through far-field analysis of the light- and sound-waves that it transmits or radiates. The shorter the wave, the higher the image’s resolution.