No smoke or mirrors, just magnets: Video shows quantum levitation in action

It may look like something out of Harry Potter's book of spells and charms.

But this mystical fizzing object is actually a magnet that has been super cooled in liquid nitrogen and then locked in space.

A student from Tel-Aviv University's Superconductivity Group School of Physics and Astronomy showed off the effects of 'quantum locking' or 'quantum trapping' during the Association of Science's annual conference in Maryland, USA.  Read More