The ESA has put a levitating furnace on the International Space Station. Getting it to work right required a bit of shaving cream. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the serious and silly sides of ...

This is perfect sphere of liquid metal, suspended using a strong magnetic field so that it can levitate in space. Oh yeah, and it’s aboard the International Space Station. With all things science ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station are resupplied with the safe arrival of JAXA’s HTV-5 “White Stork” cargo tug. The spacecraft delivered a metal-levitating furnace, a high-energy radiation ...

It’s been two years since stoner/doom metal outfit The Sword called it quits. At the time, we didn’t really get too much of a definitive answer as to why, only that after nearly 20 years as a band, ...

After a year away from YouTube, the ever-energetic [Styropyro] has returned with whiteboard in hand to remind us just how little we actually know about lasers. In the last month he’s really hit the ...

Levitating objects can spin, glide and collide together — no magnets or magic tricks required. Using steady streams of sound waves, engineers maneuvered hovering toothpicks, coffee granules and water ...