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Sound waves crack open quantum secrets

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...
Science Daily

Photonic computation with sound waves

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 ...
The Conversation

Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd

Yun Jing receives funding from NSF. Jiaxin Zhong does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed ...
Ars Technica

How to make a sound wave spin? Hit it with a pipe

It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...
The Conversation

Wave energy’s huge potential could finally be unlocked by the power of sound – new research

Usama Kadri receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust: Research Project Grant number 523930. Many devices have been designed to capture and convert waves’ great power into electricity, but today’s ...