The Predator franchise has spawned five movies — including the upcoming prequel film, Prey — and two crossover flicks pitting the titular predator against alien xenomorphs, not to mention countless ...

“Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it’s actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders an innocent-looking version of their site while real visitors just see ...

The concept of an invisibility cloak sounds like pure science fiction, but hiding something from view is theoretically possible, and in some very-controlled cases it's experimentally possible too. Now ...

From cloaking devices that conceal spaceships, to Harry Potter’s hand-me-down disappearing blanket, or even the One Ring and its power to conceal its wearer, invisibility is a staple in science ...

Researchers and engineers have long sought ways to conceal objects by manipulating how light interacts with them. A new study offers the first demonstration of invisibility cloaking based on the ...

What makes a bad date? There's being stood up, there's being insulted, there's having someone try to ram their tongue down your throat and swish it around like a washing machine. But is there ...

Mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday ...

For as long as human beings have been writing about fantasy, myth, and science fiction, the dream of invisibility has always been a top priority. While Star Trek brought the idea of a cloaking device ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Imagine you're in a fight with an enemy, and the fight itself isn't ...

Jan. 7, 2012— -- Forget wrapping an object – say, Harry Potter – in a cloak of invisibility. How about hiding an event using time? What may be a distant dream for this year's Indianapolis Colts ...

The slew of available mobile dating apps and the advent of social media has apparently given rise to a relatively new, altogether horrible dating trend: cloaking. “Cloaking is when a person doesn’t ...