A metamaterial is a composite material that exhibits unique properties due to its structure, and now researchers have used one featuring a small sawtooth pattern on its surface to move and position ...

This new metamaterial responds to acoustic waves, letting researchers rotate and move objects with precision underwater.

Sound doesn’t just help us hear music or communicate underwater—it can also be used to move objects without physically ...

We’ve all been there—without paddling limbs, wind-catching sails ... a technique to manipulate water and move floating objects with a level of precision that seems right out of a sci-fi ...

Wind chimes are pleasant and ... You might also want to add more objects to the chimes to create a more interesting, ...

Kim Gavin: Sound is one of the most efficient ways to detect objects. We use passive acoustic ... And then offshore wind. The Boston Globe’s weekly Ocean State Innovators column features a ...

Samie: Ben, I have an important question. Do inanimate objects feel wind chill? Ben: No, they don't. But what the wind can do is drop the temperature of that object faster than if there were no wind.

The natural wind currents that surround our planet can be captured and enjoyed via the melodic rhythm of a simple wind chime ...

The metamaterial created by Zhang is used to push and rotate an object adorned with the University of Wisconsin’s Bucky the Badger. NEW ORLEANS, May 20, 2025 – Sound can do more than just ...