RAILWAY AGE, OCTOBER 2023 ISSUE: What exactly is stress? It’s a tough—and often-asked—question. Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic ...

Invisibility cloaks may not be a reality yet, but a new method of building materials with light could one day be used to make these kinds of cloaking devices, researchers say. The novel technique ...

Remember the villain in the movie “Predator,” an alien that could stalk Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s character even in the dark of night using its thermal vision? Well, good news for anyone in Arnold’s ...

A very black carbon nanotube coating renders objects into silhouettes and could form the basis of a future stealth device. Like a cloak of invisibility, the material makes things disappear completely ...

A face-serum staple just helped a research team build an invisible film that conducts electricity like a metal. At La Trobe University in Melbourne, the group used hyaluronic acid to guide the growth ...

China has claimed it has created a mysterious “super material” that can make anything invisible — and it could make the country unstoppable in war. A documentary that aired on the China Central ...

In a huge achievement spanning both chemistry and physics, scientists have found a way to create entirely new classes of material that can bend oncoming light around them, making them appear invisible ...

Reason # 573854961875 why I love blogs. The other day, in a post about DARPA's new projects for 2009, I mentioned that the agency wanted to work on transparent displays. How would you make those?