Footage purportedly showing an "invisibility cloak" was created with digital video editing software.

A physicist at the University of Rochester is trying make Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak a reality. Professor John Howell’s first attempt at the optical illusion, captured on video a… ...

Imagine an invisibility cloak that works just like the one Harry Potter inherited from his father. Researchers in England and the United States think they know how to do that. They are laying out ...

Over the past few years there have been tantalizing reports that scientific progress was on the cusp of creating a real life invisibility cloak. But upon a closer reading, these experimental ...

Do we really need invisibility cloaks like the one Harry Potter uses at Hogwarts to move around undetected? Apparently, we do. At least two projects are studying materials that can hide the objects… ...

We have been reporting on invisibility cloaks since starry-eyed theorists managed to show that it was mathematically possible to design a structure that prevented electromagnetic waves from ...

Although the team has constructed these intricate metamaterials, their functionality in a real-life setting has still "not yet been demonstrated," Valev concedes.

Just before Christmas I finally got to see an invisibility cloak. I’ve written a whole book about invisibility—its myths, magic, and technology—but never before had I seen in the flesh one ...

(CNN) — The world doesn’t have a “Harry Potter”-like invisibility cloak quite yet, but various research teams around the world have been making progress in figuring out how to build one ...

Invisibility may soon go from fiction to reality as scientists are experimenting with cloaking technology.

Oct. 2011 Now we have video! University of Texas researchers demo a real-life invisibility cloak that uses carbon nanotubes.