Researchers from the Southwest Jiaotong University in China have developed cars that use magnetic levitation technology to float above a track. The eight vehicles were recently tested in Jiangsu along ...

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Magnetic levitation sounds like a magic trick, but it’s pure science. Objects can be made to “levitate” by using the repelling power of the opposite poles of magnets. By applying forward motion, the ...

MANILA, Philippines - A Davao City-based businessman’s childhood fascination with spaceships and floating vehicles in the Star Wars trilogy has led him to research and development studies on magnetic ...

It sure looks like a roller coaster, but this maglev (magnetic levitation) car is more likely in development for personal transportation. By Tyco and Gakken, the maglev system suspends the car 2-3 ...

Chinese researchers have recently performed road tests on a car fitted with magnets that floats 35 mm above a road laid with good conductors, allowing the car to levitate. According to Chinese state ...

Goodyear has reinvented the wheel by creating a spherical tire which looks like the BB-8 from Star Wars - that allows cars to drive sideways. The company unveiled the Eagle-360 at the Geneva ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. High school senior Jarrett Guyer was already struggling with his toy-sized Magnetic Levitation ...

It’s 2054 and Officer John Anderton, on the run from fellow cops, is fleeing in a wall-crawling magnetic-levitation car. But the car that actor Tom Cruise uses in Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” ...