Inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus using focused sound waves

A team of researchers from the Ministry of Health in Kuwait has successfully demonstrated the destruction of SARS-CoV-2 virus ...
Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering

Sound waves offer new way to steer blood pressure, Hopkins study finds

Johns Hopkins researchers demonstrate the potential to regulate blood pressure using non-invasive focused ultrasound.

Researchers use sound waves to detect elusive helium gas leaks

Researchers develop an innovative sound wave sensor to quickly and accurately detect elusive helium gas leaks, enhancing ...
Futurism

Scientists Say They’ve Figured Out How to Grow New Bone Using Sound Waves

Scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to regrow bone by firing high-frequency sound waves at stem cells, a potential breakthrough in regenerative ...

NASA-inspired Fire Defense: Fighting fire with sound waves

Gayle Anderson learns about Sonic Fire Tech, a startup company founded by former NASA engineers, that uses a patented ...
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 ...

Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics

At University College London, Lesley sings I Dreamed a Dream inside an MRI scanner to reveal how her vocal tract acts as a ...