"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Medieval knights may often have been equipped with some intimidating armor, but while a metal suit could be ...

Purdue University is developing detectors that use sound and radio waves to penetrate shielding materials of IEDs and hidden bombs. The work is being conducted as part of the $7m (£5m) ...

For the first time, scientists have directly controlled brain cells using sound waves, in a tiny laboratory worm. They used ultrasound to trigger activity in specific neurons, causing the worms to ...

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 ...

A collaboration between researchers from Virginia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in ...

Experts at Southampton's university hospitals are using sound waves to treat prostate cancer - without surgery. Tim Dudderidge, a consultant surgeon at Southampton General Hospital, is among UK ...

Doctors in London have used sound waves to successfully operate deep inside the brain. They treated a man from Cornwall who suffered from uncontrollable tremors in his right hand. The ultrasound ...

ANC does not shut the world out. It listens to outside noise, flips the sound pattern, and makes certain sounds feel weaker ...

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 ...