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June 25, 2025

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You Hear the Beep, but Can’t Find the Car: The Hidden Flaw in Electric Vehicle Safety

June 18, 2025 — As electric vehicles grow more popular, their warning sounds may not be doing enough to protect pedestrians. A Swedish study shows that these signals are hard to locate, especially when multiple ...

Using Sound to 'See' Unexploded Munitions on the Seafloor

May 22, 2025 — More than 400 underwater sites in the United States are potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance -- weapons that did not explode upon ...

Remotely Moving Objects Underwater Using Sound

May 21, 2025 — A metamaterial is a composite material that exhibits unique properties due to its structure, and now researchers have used one featuring a small sawtooth pattern on its surface to move and position objects underwater without touching them directly. ...

Physics Advance Details New Way to Control Solid Objects in Liquid

May 21, 2025 — Researchers have detailed the physics behind a phenomenon that allows them to create spin in liquid droplets using ultrasound waves, which concentrates solid particles suspended in the liquid. The discovery will allow researchers to engineer ...

Research Reveals Why Next-Generation Engine Noise Grinds Our Gears

May 16, 2025 — A breakthrough study has revealed why emerging electric aircraft engine technology sounds so annoying -- and how to fix ...

Focused Ultrasound Halts Growth of Debilitating Brain Lesions

May 16, 2025 — A new, incision-free technique developed at UVA Health to treat debilitating brain lesions called cerebral cavernous malformations, or cavernomas, has shown great promise in early testing, halting the growth of the lesions almost ...

New Nanoparticle Could Make Cancer Treatment Safer, More Effective

May 14, 2025 — Scientists have created a new nanoparticle that could make ultrasound-based cancer treatments more effective and safer, while also helping prevent tumors from coming back. To make the therapy even more powerful, the scientists also attached a potent ...

Ultrasound Unlocks a Safer, Greener Way to Make Hydrogels

May 9, 2025 — Researchers have developed a new way to create hydrogels using ultrasound, eliminating the need for toxic chemical initiators. This breakthrough offers a faster, cleaner and more sustainable approach to hydrogel fabrication, and produces hydrogels ...

MRI Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Diagnosis of Common Heart Problem Aortic Stenosis

May 8, 2025 — Researchers have developed cutting-edge MRI technology to diagnose a common heart problem more quickly and accurately than ever before. Aortic stenosis is a progressive and potentially fatal ...

3D Printing in Vivo Using Sound

May 8, 2025 — New technique for cell or drug delivery, localization of bioelectric materials, and wound healing uses ultrasound to activate printing within the ...

Manipulating Microbubbles to Control Fluids

May 2, 2025 — A watched pot never boils, goes the old saying, but many of us have at least kept an eye on the pot, waiting for the bubbling to start. It's satisfying to finally see the rolling boil, behind which complex physical mechanisms are at play. When this ...

Soft Brainstem Implant Delivers High-Resolution Hearing

Apr. 19, 2025 — A team has developed a soft, thin-film ABI. The device uses micrometer-scale platinum electrodes embedded in silicone, forming a pliable array just a fraction of a millimeter thick. This novel approach enables better tissue contact, potentially ...

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Uncovering the Relationship Between Life and Sound

Apr. 16, 2025 — There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your ...

Touchlessly Moving Cells: Biotech Automation and an Acoustically Levitating Diamond

Apr. 4, 2025 — Engineers have created new technology that can move cells without touching them, enabling critical tasks that currently require large pieces of lab ...

Revealing Capillaries and Cells in Living Organs With Ultrasound

Apr. 3, 2025 — While medical centers use ultrasound daily, so far this technology has not been capable of observing body tissues at the scale of cells. Physicists have now developed a microscopy technique based on ...

The Hidden Spring in Your Step

Mar. 28, 2025 — Researchers reveal the way our legs adapt to fast movements. When people hop at high speeds, key muscle fibers in the calf shorten rather than lengthen as forces increase, which they call 'negative ...

Terahertz Imaging: Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Cochlear Visualization

Mar. 27, 2025 — Researchers have discovered a groundbreaking use of terahertz (THz) imaging to visualize cochlear structures in mice, offering non-invasive, high-resolution diagnostics. By creating 3D ...

Mini Rolling Robot Takes Virtual Biopsies

Mar. 27, 2025 — A tiny magnetic robot which can take 3D scans from deep within the body, that could revolutionize early cancer detection, has been developed by researchers. The team say this is the first time it has ...

Listen to Quantum Atoms Talk Together Thanks to Acoustics

Mar. 27, 2025 — To get around the constraints of quantum physics, researchers have built a new acoustic system to study the way the minuscule atoms of condensed matter talk together. They hope to one day build an ...

Researchers Develop Computational Tools to Safeguard Privacy Without Degrading Voice-Based Cognitive Markers

Mar. 15, 2025 — Digital voice recordings contain valuable information that can indicate an individual's cognitive health, offering a non-invasive and efficient ...

'Fishial' Recognition: Neural Network Identifies Coral Reef Sounds

Mar. 11, 2025 — Researchers combine acoustic monitoring with a neural network to identify fish activity on coral reefs by sound. They trained the network to sort through the deluge of acoustic data automatically, ...

Sneaky Clocks: Uncovering Einstein's Relativity in an Interacting Atomic Playground

Mar. 7, 2025 — Researchers have explored the interplay between gravitational effects and quantum interactions in optical atomic clocks, revealing more about quantum ...

Precision Therapy With Microbubbles

Feb. 21, 2025 — Researchers have investigated how microbubbles tiny gas bubbles can deliver drugs into cells in a targeted manner using ultrasound. For the first time, they have visualized how tiny cyclic microjets ...

A Symphony in Quantum

Feb. 10, 2025 — Entanglement -- linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other -- is at the core of the quantum revolution changing the face of modern technology. ...

Listening for Multiple Mental Health Disorders

Feb. 4, 2025 — Researchers develop machine learning tools that screen for co-morbid anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder using acoustic voice signals. The team spoke to participants with and without ...

Global Internet Grid Could Better Detect Earthquakes With New Algorithm

Feb. 3, 2025 — Early detection of earthquakes could be vastly improved by tapping into the world's internet network with a groundbreaking new algorithm, researchers say. Fiber optic cables used for cable ...

New Acoustic Wave Phenomenon Discovered

Jan. 29, 2025 — This novel finding regarding the nonreciprocal diffraction of acoustic waves could open doors for next-generation communication ...

New Measurements of Solar Radiative Opacity Thanks to Helioseismology

Jan. 27, 2025 — Researchers have pioneered an innovative method using helioseismology to measure the solar radiative opacity under extreme conditions. This groundbreaking work not only reveals gaps in our ...

Ultrasound-Directed Microbubbles Could Boost Immune Response Against Tumors

Jan. 15, 2025 — Researchers have designed process that uses ultrasound to modify the behavior of cancer-fighting T cells by increasing their cell permeability. They targeted freshly isolated human immune cells with ...

Wind Turbines Impair the Access of Bats to Water Bodies in Agricultural Landscapes

Jan. 13, 2025 — Bats depend on open bodies of water such as small ponds and lakes for foraging and drinking. Access to water is particularly important for survival in the increasingly hot and dry summers caused by ...

New Insights Into Acoustic Bubbles Give Boost to Future Applications

Jan. 10, 2025 — A research team found a key indicator for the chemical activity of acoustic microbubbles and a correlation between the temperature of a liquid and that of the microbubbles ...

Highly Sensitive Transparent Ultrasound Transducer for Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Endoscopy in Live Pigs

Dec. 16, 2024 — Scientists develop a high-performance photoacoustic endoscopy featuring a transparent ultrasound ...

Minuscule Robots for Targeted Drug Delivery

Dec. 11, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team has created tiny bubble-like microrobots that can deliver therapeutics right where they are needed and then be absorbed by the ...

Noninvasive Imaging Method Can Penetrate Deeper Into Living Tissue

Dec. 11, 2024 — Researchers developed a non-invasive imaging technique that enables laser light to penetrate deeper into living tissue, capturing sharper images of cells. This could help clinical biologists study ...

Delivering Medicines With Microscopic 'Flowers'

Dec. 10, 2024 — Using microparticles consisting of extremely thin petals, medicines can be delivered via the bloodstream in a precisely targeted manner, for example to a tumour or blood clot. Ultrasound and other ...

New Imaging Platform Revolutionizes 3D Visualization of Cellular Structures

Nov. 26, 2024 — A team of researchers has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called soTILT3D for ...

Research Team Develops Novel Biomimetic Speaking Valve Technology

Nov. 20, 2024 — A research team has developed a novel biomimetic speaking valve technology that could significantly increase the safety of tracheostomized ...

Tapping Excess Heat from a Camp Stove for Charging Power

Nov. 20, 2024 — New research may make it possible to keep electronic devices powered with another piece of equipment you're likely to bring with you while exploring the great outdoors: camping stoves. The work ...

Do Pipe Organs Create an Auto-Tune Effect?

Nov. 20, 2024 — The pipe organ stands as a bastion in concert halls and church sanctuaries, and even when not in use, it affects the acoustical environment around it. Researchers performed a sine-sweep through ...

Researchers Develop Clinically Validated, Wearable Ultrasound Patch for Continuous Blood Pressure Monitoring

Nov. 20, 2024 — A re-engineered wearable ultrasound patch for continuous and noninvasive blood pressure monitoring has undergone comprehensive clinical validation on over 100 patients, marking a major milestone in ...

Ouch! Commonalties Found in Pain Vocalizations and Interjections Across Cultures

Nov. 19, 2024 — An interdisciplinary team explored possible regularities in vocal emotional expressions by comparing expressive interjections, such as 'wow,' to nonlinguistic vocalizations, such as screams ...

Scientists Find a New Way of Entangling Light and Sound

Nov. 14, 2024 — For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists have now demonstrated a ...