A miniature version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak now exists, though it works only in microwave light, and not visible light, so far. Still, it's a nifty trick, and the physicists who've ...

Who can forget the scene from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone when Professor Snape sensed someone was nearby, reached out his hand to grab them, and narrowly missed Harry Potter under his ...

WASHINGTON – The key to creating a Harry Potterlike invisibility cloak lies in manmade materials unlike any in nature or the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, researchers say. They’re laying ...

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If you were given an invisibility cloak, what would you do with it? Harry Potter definitely wore the piece well as he used it to camouflage himself when he snuck off to Hogsmeade Village or hid from ...

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J.K. Rowling continues to sprinkle tidbits of the backstory on everyone’s favorite boy wizard over on the Pottermore Web site. It’s like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion for the digital age. The ...

Scientists are a step closer to a “Harry Potter”-style invisibility cloak. They have developed a device that makes solid objects completely vanish. The gadget, called a spectral cloak, even worked in ...