It's a question I'm sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle ...

No, not with his ungainly ... has built a device that traps and compresses the cells using acoustic waves—otherwise known as sound. The purpose of the experiment is to test a hypothesis that ...

acoustic levitation could be particularly useful for handling hot materials that pose a risk of damage through physical contact, or even bio-materials, as the sound waves pose no risk of cross ...

Normally, sound waves travel in straight lines unless something blocks or reflects them. However, by using acoustic metasurfaces – specialized materials that manipulate sound waves – we can ...

It’s a new idea which could resonate with communities across the developing world – a biomass stove which also generates electricity using sound waves ... acoustic set-up there are no moving ...

In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — including halting fat development. “Since sound is non-material, acoustic stimulation ...

The new acoustic chip works in a similar way to the latter, only with sound waves instead of light waves. The team fashioned a modulator out of a material called lithium niobate, which changes its ...