In the basement of a University of Pennsylvania engineering building, Mohsen Azadi and his labmates huddled around a set of blinding LEDs set beneath an acrylic vacuum chamber. They stared at the ...

Every January, the American Space Agency awards Phase I grants in something it calls the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. It’s a recurrent effort to award the best ideas for the ...

The University of Pennsylvania has a team that did a little light research. Well, not light in the usual sense of that phrase. They used very strong light to levitate Mylar disks in a vacuum chamber.

The image above is the Flyte Levitating Light, a new bulb that has taken to Kickstarter in hopes of gathering the fiscal support it needs in order to go into mass production. The technology behind ...

It's a bird, it's a plane... no, it's a tiny, light-powered, levitating aircraft designed to fly in the "ignoro-sphere." We have been putting both craft and humans into space since the 1960s, but ...