Physicists witness pinpricks of darkness moving faster than the speed of light — without breaking the laws of relativity
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US team makes phonon lasers as a step towards ‘unjammable’ navigation
Scientists at the University of Rochester and Rochester Institute of Technology have engineered a squeezed phonon laser that…
New time crystal built using sound waves breaks Newton’s third law
Physicists at New York University in the US have built a new kind of time crystal using sound…
Scientists use sound to control material behavior, adjust device stiffness
Researchers have uncovered a way to control material behavior using sound. In a study published in Nature Communications,…
How acoustic levitation was scaled beyond a single particle
Sound is energy carried by vibrations moving through matter. It is something we hear, not something we expect…
Metamaterial with more shapes than atoms allows endless sound control
The age of smart, self-optimizing materials has begun. A programmable metamaterial has been developed that shatters the limits…