In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Researchers at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) are studying levitating materials—substances that can remain suspended in a stable position without ...

Stockholm-based American designer Simon Morris has combined science with a stroke of design wizardry to create a surreal, gravity-defying light bulb. Currently raising funds on Kickstarter, Morris has ...

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) started this week and has been dominating the news with revelations of gadgets that are exactly as irrelevant to you as they were last year and the year before and ...

A new device that uses magnetic levitation to emulate the reduced gravities found on celestial bodies such as the Moon and Mars is 1000 times larger by volume than previous systems of its kind, paving ...

Physicists in Australia have become the first researchers to levitate a macroscopic object using lasers. The physicists used three lasers to form a levitational "tripod" that could hold a small mirror ...

A symposium focusing on microgravity simulation and artificial gravity technology is to be held by the European Space Agency at its European Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands in ...

A group of architecture students has developed a conceptual "levitation suit" that allows guests to experience 3D sleeping as if they were floating in zero gravity (+ slideshow). Students from the AA ...

The moon has one-sixth the gravity of the earth so magnetic levitation can use 35 times less power to do the same work. NASA will leverage this to make thin sheets that can rolled out to make lunar ...

It is the hotel package that is perfect for wannabe space tourists, who can't quite afford the £34million singer Sarah Brightman is said to be spending on her odyssey. A hotel in Slovenia is offering ...