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

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 ...

He called this video “Harry Potter Invisibility in real life!”. During the general hype, people actively discussed the Chinese cloak, but finally it turned out to be a fake created using video ...

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 ...

John Howell, a physicist at the University of Rochester, invented the Rochester Cloak, an arrangement of ... how different things can be made invisible. Story by Jacob Shamsian, editing by Stephen ...