It’s possible to defy gravity using sound waves, magnets or electricity, but today’s methods can’t hoist heavy items high in ...

Students at the University of Exeter in the UK have broken a peculiar world record: levitating a soap bubble for 84 minutes, beating the previous record by over an hour. They created the bubble using ...

The idea has been floated previously to use sound waves to make objects levitate. Research confirmed it, but as you may expect, this requires a direct path of waves to the object – interrupt them by ...

Transporting miniaturized components with speed and precision remains a persistent challenge for industries operating at microscopic scales. Friction from conveyor belts, rollers, and other mechanical ...

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For those that haven’t heard, ultrasonic levitation is a process by which two or more ultrasonic transducers are set opposite to each other and excited in such a way as to create a standing wave ...

This device achieves frictionless movement on various flat surfaces, enabling high-speed omnidirectional mobility. News organizations may use or redistribute this image, with proper attribution, as ...

(Nanowerk News) Researchers have created tiny chip-based optical tweezers that can be used to optically levitate nanoparticles in a vacuum. Optical tweezers — which employ a tightly focused laser beam ...

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