Going bottom-up is no problem for a boat on the underside of a levitated liquid. In a container, liquid can be levitated over a layer of gas by shaking the container up and down because the repeated, ...

That question was on many minds last week at Oakcrest High School's annual Cardboard Regatta. A group of 18 students spent hours, days, even weeks building nine vessels and paddles from scratch out of ...

They say that hope floats. But with an event like Montgomery Whitewater’s Build Your Own Boat Competition that old saying should probably be, “You’d better hope it floats over rapids.” The competition ...

It might look like a magic trick, or an optical illusion of sorts. But no, your eyes don’t deceive you — that little boat you see above does, indeed, float upside down. A good magician doesn’t reveal ...

Scientists have demonstrated tiny boats that float upside down underneath a levitating layer of liquid in an amazing quirk of physics. Researchers in Paris were investigating the effect of vertical ...