Sound waves could be the future of biomedical research, diagnosing and treatment, says Peng Li, a chemistry professor at West Virginia University. Li is a data analyst for an ongoing researc... Read more
Eventually yielding more effective pharmaceuticals with fewer side effects. It’s not a magic trick and it’s not sleight of hand – scientists really are using levitation to improve the drug d... Read more
Using ultrasound waves, researchers boost skin’s permeability to drugs. Using ultrasound waves, MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transderma... Read more
The new technology uses the Doppler effect Not one to be outdone by Disney’s any-surface touch interface, Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinec... Read more
What’s the Latest Development? The French telecommunications company Orange has developed a thin, wearable film that converts sound into electricity. When the piezoelectric film, which... Read more
When it comes to the sound-proofing of buildings, most people likely think of using materials that simply absorb the sound waves in a noisy room, so they can’t proceed into a neighbori... Read more
Every year European roads are built and repaired to the tune of several billion Euros. Intensive efforts are underway all over the world to get ‘more road for your money’ by deve... Read more
In one University of Illinois lab, invisibility is a matter of now you hear it, now you don’t. Led by mechanical science and engineering professor Nicholas Fang, Illinois researchers h... Read more
As shown with lab-on-a-chip devices, sound is proving a great way to manipulate small objects Read more
Image via Wikipedia In the search for alternative energy sources there’s one form of energy you don’t hear much about, which is ironic because I’m referring to sound energy... Read more
Two years ago, Chinese scientists coated one side of a flag with a thin sheet of nanotubes, then played a song using the flapping sheet-coated flag as a speaker. It was a demonstration of fl... Read more