With a clever design, researchers have solved eddy-current damping in macroscopic levitating systems, paving the way for a ...

Eddy current damping utilises the principles of electromagnetic induction to mitigate unwanted vibrations in a variety of structures and machinery. This passive damping technique involves the ...

Scientific sorcery? Japan achieves near-frictionless levitation on macroscopic rotor A research team from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), on Friday, announced that it had ...

In a levitation breakthrough, scientists have created a virtually frictionless, macroscale levitating disk that requires no ...