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 ...

Acoustic levitators are already pretty intriguing devices, in that they use opposing sound waves to suspend small objects in mid-air. Now, however, scientists from Brazil's University of São Paulo ...

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

The bearings in your hard drive are critical to the performance and reliability of your PC and you rarely think about it as it runs silently in the background when you are surfing the Web, reading or ...

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, ...

The i?LEV set?up includes a smartphone, lens, levitation device, light source, and filters. Smartphones equipped with portable devices that magnetically levitate cells might one day help diagnose ...

Scientists have developed a new levitation device that can hover a tiny object with more control than any instrument that has come before. A team of researchers at the University of São Paulo in ...

A team of mechanical engineers from the University of Bristol has developed an easier way for suspending small matter in the air: they built an acoustic levitator with readily accessible electronics ...

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 ...

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Smartphones equipped with portable devices that magnetically levitate cells might one day help diagnose diseases in the home, clinic or lab, researchers say. Nowadays, smartphones are incredibly ...

WASHINGTON D.C., January 5, 2015 -- A team of researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil has developed a new levitation device that can hover a tiny object with more control than any ...