In 2000, the famous 1997 Levitating Frog experiment hopped its way to an Ig Nobel Prize , thanks to Dr. Andre Geim and his team, who figured out how to make a frog, a cricket, and a few plants float using magnetism. Geim would later win a real Nobel Prize for graphene, but that’s another story. Right now, let’s talk about frogs that fly. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Everything is at least a little bit magnetic. That’s an important concept to grasp before we move on, as it’s crucial in understanding how diamagnetism could lift a frog (and, theoretically, a human) off of the ground.

Metals like iron and cobalt tend to spring to mind when we think of magnetic objects – with good reason, as they exhibit strong magne

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