If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...

WASHINGTON – The key to creating a Harry Potterlike invisibility cloak lies in manmade materials unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, researchers say. They’re laying ...

Texas scientists create "mirage effect" in lab. Oct. 5, 2011 — -- It's hard to write about the experiment done at the University of Texas at Dallas without invoking Harry Potter and his ...

Harry Potter has nothing on the researchers at Duke University , who say they’re getting close to developing an actual invisibility cloak . While the fictional wizard uses his cloak to roam the halls ...

Scientists have long believed the key to an invisibility cloak, as featured in Harry Potter, is the manipulation of light. The fundamentally new approach overcomes critical shortcomings of previous ...

A miniature version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak now exists, though it works only in microwave light, and not visible light, so far. Still, it's a nifty trick, and the physicists who've ...

*Would you be interested in a piece of fabric that could render your physical…um, imperfections…invisible to the naked eye? Don’t front. You know you would. So peel off those spanx, EXHALE, and check ...

The iconic Harry Potter invisibility cloak has been brought to life by a group of scientists who have unlocked a ground-breaking new level of optical technology. According to several reports and the ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

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