Norris, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is developing honeycomb-like metallic structures that reroute sound ...

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DURHAM, N.C. -- A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow ...

Whether it’s James Bond flicking a switch to turn his Aston Martin invisible in the middle of a car chase, Harry Potter ducking and diving out of harm’s way by donning a magical invisibility cloak, ...

Chinese researchers have moved a long-running science fiction fantasy into the realm of working hardware, unveiling a prototype cloak that can make a person effectively vanish from view. Instead of ...

Both the Romulans and Klingons use cloaking technology to strike at starships belonging to the United Federation of Planets. The Predator routinely uses cloaking tech to take out its prey. And Harry ...

The great unappreciated weakness of invisibility cloaks is that they only make things invisible to human eyes. Or x-ray imagers. Or ultraviolet sensors, infrared image analyzers, echo-location audio ...