These levitating spheres may appear red, purple or green at first glance, but in actuality, all 12 orbs are the same bland shade of beige. Shrinking the image exaggerates this illusion, while ...

Physicists in China want to widen the search for dark matter using a minuscule levitating oscillator. ... The oscillator – which has yet to be built – would consist of two tiny levitating spheres ...

Physicists have suspended tiny glass spheres in a vacuum and made them interact with one another at close distance. The ‘levitating’ nanoparticles have now been manipulated with enough precision to ...

Physicists have suspended tiny glass spheres in a vacuum and made them interact with one another at close distance. The ‘levitating’ nanoparticles have now been manipulated with enough ...

Scientists create 'floating pixels' using soundwaves and force fields Date: October 13, 2016 Source: University of Sussex Summary: Researchers have used soundwaves to lift many tiny objects at ...

In what is certainly the coolest looking space-station experiment of the year, astronauts aboard the ISS are levitating and cooling perfect spheres of white-hot, liquid metal.

Their latest installation, Thought Bubbles, features a group of gently glowing spheres that levitate dreamily in mid-air kept afloat by a steady, low-pressure air flow. The installation is ...