From the wish-granting jinn of Arabian folklore to the shadow people of Inuit mythology, creatures possessing the fantastical ...

Jan. 7, 2012— -- Forget wrapping an object – say, Harry Potter – in a cloak of invisibility. How about hiding an event using time? What may be a distant dream for this year's Indianapolis Colts ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cloaking, or the ability to render oneself or one’s craft invisible, is a staple of science fiction stories from Star Trek to ...

“Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it’s actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders an innocent-looking version of their site while real visitors just see ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The Oct. 26, 2006 RF Report described a demonstration of cloaking--making an object ...

For centuries, humans have dreamed of fading into the background. Hunters have long wished to vanish into their surroundings, and these days, awkward moments at parties can evoke similar desires. But ...

The concept of an invisibility cloak sounds like pure science fiction, but hiding something from view is theoretically possible, and in some very-controlled cases it's experimentally possible too. Now ...

What makes a bad date? There's being stood up, there's being insulted, there's having someone try to ram their tongue down your throat and swish it around like a washing machine. But is there ...

Cloaking devices and metamaterials are hot topics in the realm of science where optics blurs into materials science. By crafting materials that can interact with specific wavelengths of light, ...

Researchers and engineers have long sought ways to conceal objects by manipulating how light interacts with them. A new study offers the first demonstration of invisibility cloaking based on the ...

The slew of available mobile dating apps and the advent of social media has apparently given rise to a relatively new, altogether horrible dating trend: cloaking. “Cloaking is when a person doesn’t ...