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Could invisibility cloaks become a reality? New research brings this science fiction concept a step closer, with a breakthrough software package that simulates how waves interact with complex ...

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 ...

The desire to disappear has been strong throughout history. It didn’t go well for the protagonist in H. G. Wells’s The Invisible Man, but that is because his invisibility was permanent. What was ...