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Levitating objects can spin, glide and collide together — no magnets or magic tricks required. Using steady streams of sound waves, engineers maneuvered hovering toothpicks, coffee granules and water ...

Hold on to your wand, Harry Potter: Science has outdone even your best "Leviosa!" levitation spell. Researchers report that they have levitated objects with sound waves, and moved those objects around ...

Levitating sensors are moving from science-fiction imagery to practical laboratory tools, promising a new generation of instruments that can feel forces so faint they border on the gravitational pull ...

Levitation may seem like magic. However, for certain objects, and in certain conditions, it’s actually a solved technology. If you want to move small particles around or do experiments with ultrasonic ...

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Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. The idea has been floated previously to ...

The Mars levitating speaker features a UFO-style disc that floats above a sleek black subwoofer column. And that's only the start of its cool features. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the ...

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Suspending soft, sticky or fragile objects between magnets may be a way to rotate and position them in 3-D space without needing to touch them. Manually manipulating these kinds of objects can damage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we head into the end of July, did you know that Harry Potter's birthday is this Saturday, July 31st? So let's have some fun ...