Could lead to an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery A carbon-nanotube-coated lens that converts light to sound can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever before. The... Read more
Acoustic cell-sorting chip may lead to cell phone-sized medical labs A technique that uses acoustic waves to sort cells on a chip may create miniature medical analytic devices that could mak... 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
Silicon chips shuffling all those electrons around inside modern PCs, gaming consoles and home theater systems generate a lot of heat that needs to be dissipated to stop the machines going i... 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
“House lights up!” proclaimed the silver-haired former lawyer who, with blue jeans, black T-shirt, black safari jacket and Nikes, looked oh-so Hollywood in an oh-so Chicago bastion, the Merc... Read more