Superconductivity, explained by the people who make the kits.
Experiments you can run, physics worth understanding, and the occasional sceptical look at a headline. Written for teachers, students and anyone who has ever wondered how a magnet can hang in mid-air.
Choosing a Superconductor Kit: What the Options Actually Include
From $25 maglev toys to $1,149 force-measurement rigs: what is physically in the box in each price band, and which kit fits which project.
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The Flux-Pinning Force Experiment: A Science-Fair Method That Wins on Data
Turn quantum levitation into real experimental physics: variables, field-cooling protocol, force measurement, uncertainty and the graphs judges want to see.
Maglev Magnets: How They Work, Where They’re Used, and Why They Matter
Magnetic levitation has moved from futuristic dreams to science class reality, and at the center of it all are maglev magnets. But…
Science Experiment Kits for Teens: 6 Fascinating Ways to Demonstrate Magnetic Levitation
Magnetic levitation is a phenomenon that combines physics and wonder, capturing the imagination of anyone who sees it in action. From science…
Science Fair Project Ideas That Use Real Physics
Are you tired of the same old baking soda volcanoes and potato batteries at science fairs? If you're looking to stand out…
Room temperature superconductors (??)
The scientific world is in turmoil. Room temperature superconductivity has been discovered. Or so it seems. Let's explore some issues with the…
Magnetic Levitation Science Project
Explore superconductor levitation and create a tabletop hoverboard with magnets. In this science fair experiment students can explore magnetic levitation and superconductors.
What Is Superconducting Levitation and How Does it Work?
Explore superconductor levitation and create a tabletop hoverboard with magnets. In this science fair experiment students can explore magnetic levitation and superconductors.
Superconductor Hoverboard Science Fair Project: Build It and Measure It
A superconductor cooled in liquid nitrogen hangs above a magnetic track and glides along it. How to build the demonstration, and how…
Measuring Superconductivity
Superconductivity introduces one of the most technically difficult challenges for physicists – designing a measurement setup that is sensitive to very low…
Meissner or Flux pinning?
Qualitative Experiment steps: Quantum Levitation is the stable levitation and suspension of a superconductor in a surrounding magnetic field. It is actually…
Hands-on Quantum Physics
Quantum Levitation has dazzled millions of people via major TV networks, the TED conference live and online, and in universities and schools…
The Rise Of High Temperatures Superconductors
In 1911, Dutch physicist and Nobel Laureate Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovered that when you cool the element mercury (Hg) in liquid helium to a…
Energy Storage, can Superconductors be the solution?
Can we store energy using Superconductors? Yes. There are two superconducting properties that can be used to store energy: zero electrical resistance…
The mechanism behind superconductivity
Do we understand what makes a superconductor? Yes, but not entirely. The phenomenology (or the quantitative description of the phenomenon) of superconductivity…
Quantum Levitation Booklet
We are happy to offer teachers and educators “Quantum Levitation Booklet“, a complete experiment guide that includes theoretical background, quantitative experiments, data analysis and much more.…
Superconductor up close (using SEM)
YBa2Cu3O7-x crystal images take in Tel-Aviv University using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) Mag x10K Mag x12K Mag x100K Mag x134K
What is Superconductivity
Certain materials, upon cooling below a certain temperature (aka the ‘critical temperature’ or Tc) lose their electrical resistance completely. The phenomena was…
Bring the physics into the room.
Every article here describes something you can actually run on a table, with a kit and about half a litre of liquid nitrogen.
