Sentences with phrase «levitating magnet»

This stacking levitating magnet experiment is fun for little kids and big kids.

I thought this little levitating magnet trick would be a perfect way to incorporate stories and science together!

Check out my Apple Science post, my Apple Shrunken Head, and my Apple Stacking - Levitating Magnets Experiment.

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It would use magnets to levitate, and would travel upwards of 700 mph.

Superconductivity's potential technological applications — which include energy - efficient power transmission, superstrong magnets and levitating trains — have attracted heaps of scientific interest in the phenomenon.

People would see a magnet move a piece of metal, or a moon trapped in orbit around a planet, or a man in a restaurant levitate a saltshaker just by looking at it, and they would wonder how it was possible.

But two years ago, a pair of NASA scientists levitated a mouse using a superconducting magnet that repelled the water molecules in the creature's body.

The idea of using the repulsion between the like poles of magnets for high - speed, levitating transport has been floating around for the best part of a century but commercially successful implementations remain thin on the ground.

«It is extremely difficult to levitate and precisely move a drop of liquid with a magnet.

Jan Kees Maan and Andre Geim, physicists at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands, used a powerful magnet to levitate the frog.

They placed a magnet near the test tube and watched the soap levitate through the less - dense layers and reach the magnet.

High - temperature superconductors could lead to faster, more efficient electronic devices, grids that can transmit power without energy loss and ultra-fast levitating trains that ride frictionless magnets instead of rails.

Breast cancer cells, levitating between magnets in a fluid chamber, die and sink when exposed to acid.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

High - speed maglev trains make extensive use of such magnets to levitate the cars above their tracks.

«If you have a magnet that is big enough, you could levitate a human,» says Peter Main, one of the researchers.

When THE EXORCIST first hit the cinema, director William Friedkin told audiences that magnets were used to levitate Linda Blair from the bed.

Learn how Professor Andre Geim of the Netherlands and Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University in England employed magnets to levitate a frog, a reptilian rendering that earned them the Ig Nobel Physics Prize in 1997.

This portable speaker accompanied by a pod levitates due to the clever use of magnets.