Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak didn’t really work ...

The future of war isn’t coming—it’s already here. From invisibility cloaks for tanks to insect drones wired for surveillance, these military technologies sound like science fiction but exist right now ...

Hospitals, power grids, aerospace systems, and scientific laboratories all host extremely sensitive technologies that allow the facilities to do what they need to do—as long as no pesky, unwanted ...

University of Leicester engineers have unveiled a concept for a device designed to magnetically "cloak" sensitive components, making them invisible to detection. A magnetic cloak is a device that ...

Leafhoppers, insects smaller than your thumbnail, have been mastering the art of staying hidden for millions of years. They coat themselves with microscopic particles that work like nature’s own ...

The few and the proud just got a bit more debonaire. For the first time since its authorization for wear in the 1800s, both male and female Marines whose rank or officer status qualifies them can wear ...

The Court held the State failed to sufficiently plead allegations of general jurisdiction in its petition but established specific jurisdiction based on Yelp’s Texas-targeted online conduct, reasoning ...

Harry Potter is not the first to set our imaginations reeling with how glorious and fun it would be to don an invisibility cloak and go about our day. An “invisible day” doesn’t quite offer that magic ...

Dear Readers: Every Veterans Day, I always remember a woman I once met in an airport. She was sitting quietly by a window, holding a small American flag in one hand and a welcome home sign in the ...

There’s something that some of us want to believe — something weird and wondrous and, to be frank, scary. We envision a world in which the sort of invisibility cloaks, the kind that appear in Harry ...