Rats Levitate Using a Super-Magnet

Have I mentioned that I love science? Something that is rather puzzling in that this defies gravity, is the fact that scientist have managed to use a super-magnet that generates enough energy to lift small animals.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have created a superconducting magnet that generates enough energy to lift small animals off the floor. The magnet pushes the water inside the animals up, making them fly. The magnet is large enough to make rodents to levitate.

The researchers first levitated a young mouse, just three-week-old and weighing 10 grams. It appeared agitated and disoriented, seemingly trying to hold on to something.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin faster and faster, and we think that made it even more disoriented," said researcher Yuanming Liu, a physicist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They decided to mildly sedate the next mouse they levitated, which seemed content with floating.

I see good uses for this in the future for us humans. To read the rest of the story, take a look here.