When thinking of levitation, one often pictures a concentrated magician and a lady floating in the air, or a levitating guru. However, this is only an optical illusion or quackery. The physical ...

Magnetic levitation is used to float everything from lightbulbs to trains, with varying levels of success, but usually it requires a power source. Now, scientists in Japan have developed a way to make ...

In magnetic levitation, a strong and spatially varying magnetic field exerts an upward force on a body that is sufficient to counteract its weight due to gravity. Here we show that this effect can be ...