A new type of sensor that levitates dozens of glass microparticles could revolutionize the accuracy and efficiency of sensing, laying the foundation for better autonomous vehicles, navigation and even ...

Although science often advances through tried-and-tested methods, sometimes scientists have to find creative ways to test ...

Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated, but it causes multiple particles to collapse into a clump in mid-air. Physicists at the Institute of Science and ...

THE granting of patents in the United States was provided for in the Constitution, and on April 10, 1790, Congress specified how patents were to be issued. It was, however, not until an act of July 4, ...

Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi is known as the "levitation girl." She became an internet sensation over the past year with her "Today's Levitation" series, a self-portrait project consisting ...

This story appears in the February 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine. Each February, in observance of Black History Month in the United States, we revisit the stories of notable African ...

“Fiat money,” reads one of many such panegyrics, “is the most significant innovation in money since the Lydians minted their first coin. For the first sustained period, countries, and of course their ...

The RTV 31 hovertrain was expected to be even faster than Japan’s bullet train, but now it is rotting beside a railway line ...

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