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

Kyoto Prize winners came to San Diego for this year’s symposium. Kyoto Laureate John Pendry talked about the theory of ...

Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our sight. Chinese scientists have devised a camouflage material that adjusts its molecular composition to blend into the ...

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

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A method has been developed to make objects invisible within a magnetic field affecting particle streams, extending cloaking beyond light and sound waves. This ...

An invisibility cloak may seem like science fiction, but despite that, many scientists and engineers have put much time into developing the concept, pushing it closer to reality. A device which ...

Making objects invisible is no longer a purely fictional idea from fantasy or sci-fi films. At least to some extent, cloaking also works in research: manipulating objects in such a way that they ...

Invisibility cloaking illustrating how cloaking works using electromagnetic cloaking. On the left, electromagnetic waves, which could be light, scatter upon hitting the cylinder in the middle.

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such as creating a perfect lens capable of focusing and imaging beyond the diffraction limit or developing cloaking devices that render objects invisible. While negative refraction has been ...