Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles ...

The metamaterial created by Zhang is used to push and rotate an object adorned with the University of Wisconsin’s Bucky the Badger. NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 2025 – Sound can do more than just provide a ...

Earlier this month, there were sightings of an unusual, enormous ball-shaped unidentified floating object meandering around in Puget Sound. The device is not of alien origin, no matter how it looks.

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 ...

A team of international scientists co-led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have discovered a ...

Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie. Reading time 3 minutes Imagine hopping onto a large floatie in a lake ...

In 2018, Arthur Ashkin won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing optical tweezers: laser beams that can be used to manipulate microscopic particles. While useful for many biological applications, ...