Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Since ancient times, people have experimented with light, cherishing shiny metals like gold and cutting gemstones to brighten ...

Scientists have demonstrated that negative refraction can be achieved using atomic arrays -- without the need for artificially manufactured metamaterials. Scientists have long sought to control light ...

Berkeley -- Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have for the first time engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light, a ...

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley have engineered 3-D materials that can reverse the natural direction of visible and near-infrared light. As a result, the research raises the ...

“Invisibility cloak” makes objects disappear in plain sight thanks to its use of “Quantum Stealth” material. Saying that Hyperstealth Biotechnology’s “invisibility cloak” is just as good as Harry ...

Your article on invisibility and negative refraction says that the 1968 work by Victor Veselago was “the first time that anyone had thought of a way that light could be steered in ways beyond the ...

Gbur (Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics), a physics professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, surveys in this entertaining primer the state of research into literal invisibility.