Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave -- including halting fat ...

Former NASA engineers are using sound waves to disrupt wildfires, offering a potential waterless solution for fire ...

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A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wearable tech is moving into a new era — and it's not powered by electronics. Researchers at ETH Zurich have created a T-shirt ...

Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One ...

Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound. Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using ...

A new sound-wave coating process creates protective layers on delicate materials, including living plant tissue, in just ...

Using this model of a 1D material, researchers demonstrate a new way to remotely change a material's stiffness using sound waves. A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego ...

(Qi Yang/Moment/Getty Images) Sound waves already used in medical scans may have a surprising new target: viruses. In lab ...

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...