Levitation may sound like magic, but there are a wide variety of physical phenomena that can be manipulated to generate the desired effect. In this case, [Mirko Pavleski] has built a rig capable of ...

Ultrasonic levitation is by now a familiar trick: one or more ultrasonic transducers create a standing wave, and small objects can be held in the nodes of this standing wave. With a sufficiently large ...

Acoustic levitation conjures images of Star Trek­-style tractor beams and ultrasonic hover boards, but in reality floating objects on a cushion of sound occurs on far smaller scales. That’s in part ...

Using ultrasound, a team of Japanese scientists has levitated small particles, and moved them around mid-air. It’s incredible to see. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen ultrasonic levitation, but it ...

There are few things cooler than the way in which scientists are able to get objects to levitate above the ground. But while many of the recent levitating technologies we’ve seen involve ...

Levitation isn't just for mystics anymore. A Japanese technology team has demonstrated ultrasonic levitation of objects that for the first time works in three dimensions. This means that as opposed to ...

Scientists in Japan are exploring the possibilities – and limitations – of suspending objects in midair using sound waves. The team of innovators was able to make a matchstick, drops of water, screws ...

Mexican researchers have used ultrasonic levitation to suspend droplets of water in the air and perform spectral analysis to detect contamination. Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is ...

Researchers at the University of Sussex have become the first in the world to develop technology which can bend sound waves around an obstacle and then levitate an object. The so-called SoundBender ...