Believe it or not, levitating objects aren't just the stuff of science fiction and magic shows. There are actually many different forms of levitation including something called acoustic levitation, ...

Magnetic levitation demonstrated using a Dremel tool spinning a magnet at 266 Hz. The rotor magnet is 7x7x7 mm3 and the floater magnet is 6x6x6 mm3. This video show the physics described in the work ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

If your lab needs a bit of a lift, or you find it hard to get your projects off the ground, then a levitation technology developed by a team of scientists from the University of São Paulo, in Brazil, ...

If there was a cooler movie prop in my childhood than the hoverboard from Back to the Future, Part II, I don’t know what it was. That hoverboard made me really, really want to be living in the year ...

It’s time for everyone’s favorite game: speculative engineering! An anonymous reader wrote to our tips line asking how the levitation system of the STORY clock is accomplished. We took a look and can ...

In a complete 180 from the day before, day 2 of Levitation, the non-festival festival in Austin, Texas, was a windfall of pure perfection. I've only spent a handful of the past 24 hours sleeping, so ...

When Levitation kicked off around Austin this month, both Halloween and Día de los Muertos were technically over. Still, a sense of eeriness lingered heavily around the four-day music festival, which ...

HOW MUCH: $17, plus fees, at holdmyticket.com; the show is 21+ Formed nearly a decade ago in East Los Angeles, Levitation Room focuses on what they consider “otherworldly” rock music that is steeped ...