Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

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Scientists Show Off Levitating Material

On a Float 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 perfectly still above a grid of magnets. Besides being a fascinating demonstration of magnetic levitation, the researchers' platform doesn't rely on any external power sources, as detailed in a new paper published in the journal Applied Physics…