Harry Potter’s iconic “Invisibility Cloak” could perhaps be within our ... in a study published last month in the journal Science Advances. “Applying this technology to clothing could ...

The cloak is shown lying over a bump on a flat ... and published their findings in the latest edition of the journal Science. In their study, the researchers placed a 2.5 centimetre bump ...

The other team, reporting in Science, used an oxide template and grew ... "You'd have to wrap whatever you wanted to cloak in the material. It would just send light around. By sending light ...

An invisibility cloak for a single frequency is based on the structured material, which requires that the motion of electrons in its metallic elements are resonant with the frequency of the light ...

A paper detailing the study appears in the journal Science. You can see the cloak in action in the short video below.

"Our model experiments have shown that the cloak layer makes the contact fingers nearly completely invisible," doctoral student Martin Schumann of the KIT Institute of Applied Physics says ...

Oddly, though, in recent times it has been thrust into the forefront of in-development science fiction technology ... create a large-scale invisibility cloak that masks the spectrum of visible ...

Sahana is a science journalist and an intern at The Scientist, with a background in neuroscience and microbiology. She has previously written for Live Science, Massive Science, and eLife. View Full ...