One way of ensuring that attackers don’t access a network node or break into a device is to render its identification invisible. Cloaking the device’s address gives a hacker nothing to see, and it can ...

Science and fiction always had a chicken and egg relationship: it’s hard to tell which one informs the other. Take invisibility, a fantastical notion brought into popular culture first by HG Wells’ ...

Much has been made in recent years of breakthroughs in creating “invisibility cloaks” along the lines of those dreamed up by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. Now comes word out of China that ...

In the early 2000s, two methods for a potential invisibility cloak were discovered by physicists in the United Kingdom and the United States who said that the technology necessary to create these ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Using a new design theory, researchers at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering and Imperial College London have developed the blueprint for an invisibility cloak. Once devised, ...

Magnetic invisibility sounds simple in theory. Place the right materials around an object and magnetic fields flow around it as if nothing were there. Reality has been far messier. For nearly two ...

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, ...

An elusive deep sea creature was spotted lurking like a shadow off the coast of California. Photo courtesy of Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute A deep sea creature that looks like something out ...

A team of deep-sea explorers were recently scouring Monterey Bay off the coast of California when something strange and unexpected emerged in the distance. On first glance, it appeared be a shadowy ...