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In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Using high-frequency sound waves directed at human stem cells, researchers have been able to grow bone cells in a procedure that could one day help patients regrow bone tissue. The new method uses the ...

When exposed to stress and strain, materials can display a wide range of different properties. By using sound waves, scientists have begun to explore fundamental stress behaviors in a crystalline ...

Researchers have engineered a silk fabric that can suppress noise by either generating sound waves that interfere with the noise or by blocking vibrations that are key to the transmission of sound.

Future wireless networks will need to process far more data across a wider range of frequencies than today’s systems. This ...

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