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A wave of recent online videos showing the bottom of a dropped Slinky hovering in midair has scientists taking a closer look at the toy. Grab a Slinky from the toybox and try this experiment at home. ...

Dan Matthews has been serving as the volunteer director of the Kauai Regional Science and Engineering Fair, Awards Ceremony for five years.

Levitating and spinning diamonds might sound like science fiction, but they’re now part of a bold effort to study the foundations of the universe. In a groundbreaking experiment, researchers have ...

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Magnetic levitation demonstrated using a Dremel tool spinning a magnet at 266 Hz. The rotor magnet is 7x7x7 mm3 and the floater magnet is 6x6x6 mm3. This video show the physics described in the work ...