Acoustic metamaterials are a fast-evolving family of materials which manipulate sound waves in ever more advanced ways. Now, a team led by Changqing Xu at Nanjing Normal University in China has ...

Futuristic control of structure in some materials is being made possible by a physics loophole.

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Using sound waves instead of water to extinguish flames? This is not the stuff of science fiction but a new firefighting ...

Water has long been the go-to when it comes to fighting a fire. But what about sound waves? It might be hard to wrap your ...

In the context of sensory modalities, eyes work like tiny antennae, picking up light, electromagnetic waves traveling at blistering speeds. When humans look at the world, their eyes catch these waves ...

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Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 ...