Invisibility cloaks and deflector shields, once a staple of popular science-fiction, are now the real deal, researchers say. Cloaking and shields have long protected starcruisers from blaster shots ...

Modern technology depends on precision, yet many critical systems operate in environments filled with invisible magnetic ...

Mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday ...

A new approach to invisibility cloaking may one day be used at sea to shield floating objects – such as oil rigs and ships – from rough waves. Unlike most other cloaking techniques that rely on ...

University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it’s unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in “Star Trek.” Instead, the ...

“Red Alert! Phasers standby to fire on my order,” says Captain James Tiberius Kirk of the starship Enterprise, the famed starship with the mission “to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and ...

French researchers say special coatings can isolate objects from heat or concentrate heat, similar to how waves are diffused for cloaking. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...