Video cameras continue to gain widespread use, but there are privacy and environmental limitations in how well they work. Acoustical waves are an alternative medium that may bypass those limitations.

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Forget fad diets and sketchy supplements, your favorite song might be the key to staying thin. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — ...

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"Sound waves power new advances in drug delivery and smart materials." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 11 / 201124101029.htm (accessed April 28, 2026).

Yushun Zeng squishes cancer cells in a petri dish at work. No, not with his ungainly, macroscopic human fingers. Zeng, an engineering graduate student at the University of Southern California, has ...

Use different noise-making objects to cause sound waves and make sand move! Sound waves are invisible to our eyes; unless we find a way to make the sound waves move something that we can see. In this ...