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

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’ ...

What would it take to hide an entire planet? It sounds more like a question posed in an episode of “Star Trek” than in academic discourse, but sometimes the bleeding edge of science blurs with themes ...

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 ...

The dreamer anglerfish is an ambush predator that lies in wait in the midwater, “fishing” for prey with a luminescent lure. The deep sea creature was recently spotted lurking off the coast of ...

A deep sea creature that looks like something out of a dream — or maybe more like a nightmare — was spotted lurking off California’s coast, researchers say. Which is fitting when you consider its name ...

Scheme of the difference between the SCS and DT detection techniques. a) The SCS is a scalar quantity related to the total scattered power for a given incident direction. The phase of the scattered ...

Scientists exploring a novel but highly promising avenue of cancer treatment have developed a type of "invisibility cloak" that helps engineered bacteria sneak through the body's immune defenses. The ...

Optical cloaking allows objects to be hidden in plain sight by guiding light around anything placed inside the cloak. While cloaking has been popularized in fiction, researchers in recent years have ...

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 ...