Auxetic metamaterials can improve comfort, fit, and impact protection in products such as body protection and helmets. They ...

You might think invisibility cloaks exist only in the Wizarding World, but think again. A research team at the Korea Advanced ...

What do Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak and stealth fighter jets that evade radar have in common? They both make objects invisible despite their physical presence. Building upon this concept, our ...

Why are Metamaterials Unlike Anything in Nature? Material properties are typically defined by electric permittivity (ε) and magnetic permeability (μ), with free space representing the baseline values ...

The new metamaterial designed by Kong and his team at Rice can be controlled remotely to rapidly transform its size and shape (Photos and video by Jorge Vidal/Rice University). Researchers led by Rice ...

A new approach to manufacturing multicolor lenses could inspire a new generation of tiny, cheap, and powerful optics for portable devices such as phones and drones. The design uses layers of ...

Scientists at the University of Rochester have built a working invisibility shield that bends light to hide objects from view — no CGI or sci-fi needed Ghislaine Maxwell Denied Immunity to Testify ...

The future of the architecture industry holds countless possibilities, as reserach in the domain progresses. One innovation is the ability for structures to be rendered acoustically invisible, absorb ...