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’ ...

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Christmas is a really important time for many people, not just in real life, but also in fiction. In Harry Potter, for example, it’s even more important, since a scene on December 25th lays the ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. It was love at ...

Harry Potter fans, take note: Scientists have made an object “disappear” using a cloaking device similar in many ways to the invisibility cloak imagined by author J.K. Rowling. Researchers from the ...

Are physics – not magic — the key to a Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak? New research indicates yes. A recent study by researchers from Imperial College London involves a new class of space-aged ...

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 ...

Harry Potter has nothing on the researchers at Duke University, who say they’re getting close to developing an actual invisibility cloak. While the fictional wizard uses his cloak to roam the halls of ...