Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave -- including halting fat ...

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Using this model of a 1D material, researchers demonstrate a new way to remotely change a material's stiffness using sound waves. A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego ...

Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One ...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. What goes up must come down. Physical laws like these govern all ...

A collaboration between researchers from Virginia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in the US has built a chip-scale device that can trap and control sound waves in a way that mimics the ...

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In physics, a mechanical kink marks the point of transition between different internal states of a material. Researchers have now succeeded in ...