Researchers use acoustic forces to print droplets that couldn’t be printed before Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplet... Read more
New technique to selectively and noninvasively turn on groups of neurons in worms could be boon to science and medicine Salk scientists have developed a new way to selectively activate brain... Read more
Device could improve wireless communications systems During a thunderstorm, we all know that it is common to hear thunder after we see the lightning. That’s because sound travels much slower... Read more
Acoustic Bottle Beams from Berkeley Lab Hold Promise for Imaging, Cloaking, Levitation and Other Apps There’s a new wave of sound on the horizon carrying with it a broad scope of tantalizing... Read more
“By tuning the sound waves, we can create any pattern we want on the surface of a microchip,” In a breakthrough discovery, researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have harnes... Read more
An advance has been achieved towards next generation ultrasonic imaging with potentially 1,000 times higher resolution than today’s medical ultrasounds. Berkeley Lab Researchers Demonstrate... Read more
Duke engineers build world’s first 3-D acoustic cloaking device Using little more than a few perforated sheets of plastic and a staggering amount of number crunching, Duke engineers have dem... Read more
UT Austin Engineers Build First Nonreciprocal Acoustic Circulator A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering has built the first-ever circula... Read more
Imagine living on a bustling city block, but free from the noise of car horns and people on the street. The emerging field of phononics could one day make this a reality. The phonon, like th... Read more
Novel Design for a Device that Would Transmit Sound in One-way May Lead To Brighter, Clearer Ultrasound Images and Improve Diagnosis and Therapy Most people know about ultrasound through its... Read more
The use of ultrasonic vibrations is a new technique for delivering tactile sensations to the user. A system that allows users to experience multi-point haptic feedback above an interactive s... Read more
Sensor technology: Microphones are designed to capture sound. But they turn out to be able to capture other sorts of information, too MICROPHONES exist in many shapes and sizes, and work in... Read more
A sensor developed in Norway gives microphones hyper-acute hearing and a sense of direction. A sensor developed by scientists at SINTEF’s MiNaLab will help to make microphones hypersensitive... Read more
“This technology could have a payback period of less than one year.” All chefs know that “you have to break some eggs to make an omelet,” and that includes engineers at Iowa State Univ... Read more
Functionally deaf patients can gain normal hearing with a new implant that replaces the middle ear. The unique invention from the Chalmers University of Technology has been approved for a cl... Read more
