You might think invisibility cloaks exist only in the Wizarding World, but think again. A research team at the Korea Advanced ...

Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied ...

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’ ...

A deep sea creature that looks like something out of a dream — or maybe more like a nightmare — was spotted lurking off California’s coast, researchers say. Which is fitting when you consider its name ...

The dreamer anglerfish is an ambush predator that lies in wait in the midwater, “fishing” for prey with a luminescent lure. The deep sea creature was recently spotted lurking off the coast of ...

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 discourse, but sometimes the bleeding edge of science blurs with themes ...

In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries scores the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts. In the "Star Trek" universe, cloaking devices on Romulan and Klingon spaceships create all ...

A team of deep-sea explorers were recently scouring Monterey Bay off the coast of California when something strange and unexpected emerged in the distance. On first glance, it appeared be a shadowy ...