Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

We celebrate the International Year of Light by exploring the science behind light. Reactions is taking a look to see if science and chemistry could make invisibility cloaks possible. Have you ever ...

Engineers at Duke University, North Carolina, have used 3D printing to create an object that can shield against detection from microwave beams. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

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’ ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A team led by scientists at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering has demonstrated the first working "invisibility cloak." The cloak deflects microwave beams so they flow ...

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 ...