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8 January 2014updated 20 Aug 2021 8:30am

Scientists can levitate stuff and make it fly around using sound

Japanese scientists have made hundreds of tiny plastic balls float around like miniature spaceships.

By Ian Steadman

Today’s news from the world of Awesome Science comes from the University of Tokyo, where a team has been levitating and controlling objects using sound. Here’s the video:

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