Mike Sorrentino is a Senior Editor for Mobile, covering phones, texting apps and smartwatches -- obsessing about how we can make the most of them. Mike also keeps an eye out on the movie and toy ...

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 ...

Aya Tsintziras is a freelance writer who writes about TV, movies, and has a particular interest in the horror genre. She has a Political Science degree from the University of Toronto and a Masters of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have designed an invisibility device which can hide objects at a wide range of light frequencies. But, unfortunately for Harry Potter fans, they are still a long way off making objects ...

Now you see it, now you don't. Researchers discovered a way to hide objects from plain sight by using a technology that seems like it came straight out of the Harry Potter series. Researchers at the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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 ...

“Yer a wizard, Harry!” HBO is starting to roll out the first images from its hugely anticipated Harry Potter series, which ...

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 ...