In the world of magic, levitation looks like a simple spell. In movies and TV series, characters lift objects with a wave of their hand or a successful use of force. However, in the real world, ...

Scientists have overcome a major hurdle in the quest to levitate large objects with ultrasound. Previously, researchers had struggled to float an object larger than the wavelength without being very ...

For her birthday, assistant professor of radiology Gozde Durmus received an unusual present: the power to control cell levitation. The gift, while exciting, wasn’t necessarily a surprise. Durmus and ...

Scientists are researching a way to move objects using only light which could open the door to interstellar travel. Although the research by a team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

Stanford Medicine researchers invent an electromagnetic device that can gently sort different types of cells by levitating them to different heights. It looks like a magic trick: Cells at the bottom ...

In an experiment that might be classified more as a cool party trick than a scientific breakthrough, researchers levitated a mouse using a powerful superconducting magnet. Other scientists have ...