Dark matter is thought to outnumber regular matter by a factor of five to one – so why can’t we find the stuff? A new study proposes looking for it from space, using a satellite containing a ...

In a new study out of Japan, researchers have demonstrated the ability to use a laser to control the motion of a magnetically levitating graphite disk. Laser moves graphite disk in the direction of ...

A team of researchers at the Quantum Machines Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) in Japan have showed off a small piece of “gravity-free” graphite to levitate almost ...

The scientists chemically coated each graphite particle with a layer of electrically insulating silica. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) helps silica bind to the surface of the graphite. The coated graphite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new paper says that one dark matter candidate hasn't killed anyone A new detector to home in on the mystery of dark matter is ...

Graphite has been known as a typical diamagnetic material and can be levitated in the strong magnetic field. Researchers have shown that the magnetically levitating pyrolytic graphite can be moved in ...

Researchers may have unlocked the potential for gravity-free technology. A new study published in Applied Physics Letters highlights how researchers have made huge breakthroughs in magnetic levitation ...

(Phys.org)—It's not a magic trick and it's not sleight of hand – scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug development process, eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with ...

A graphite disk levitating over a bed of rare earth permanent magnets can be ‘pushed’ around or made to spin using a laser beam, Japanese scientists have shown. The phenomenon can also be used to ...

We see our share of pitches for perpetual motion machines in the Hackaday tips line, and we generally ignore them and move along. And while this magnetic levitation motor does not break the laws of ...