What's more, the team's method is not limited to moving spherical objects along a path ... Fleury adds that sound is a particularly promising tool for biomedical applications, as it is harmless ...

In the past four years, Fleury and his team members tried to move objects in uncontrolled, dynamic environments using sound waves. According to the researchers, the team’s method – wave ...

At certain points the sound waves meet in such a way that they cancel each other out, forming nodes. These nodes are where the levitated objects stay, and researchers can manipulate the objects by ...

Fleury adds that sound is a particularly promising tool ... More information: Bakhtiyar Orazbayev et al, Wave-momentum shaping for moving objects in heterogeneous and dynamic media, Nature Physics ...

As sound waves travel, they produce changes in ... but the researchers hope to develop a system that can move objects in two dimensions, Foresti said. The new system is a major advance, both ...

Researchers in Tokyo have put a new twist on the use of sound to suspend objects in air. They've used ultrasonic standing waves to trap pieces of wood, metal, and water – and even move them around.

Researchers in Switzerland have found a way of using sound waves to manipulate objects in disordered environments such as liquids. Instead of trapping the objects as conventional optical and acoustic ...

As sound waves travel, they produce changes in ... but the researchers hope to develop a system that can move objects in two dimensions, Foresti said. The new system is a major advance, both ...

A large, clear plastic plate is placed a small distance above the chessboard to reflect the sound; if the sounds waves are strong enough, objects can hover and move around within the space.

Sound waves have been used for everything from mapping the seafloor to breaking apart kidney stones. Thanks to a unique material structure, researchers can now move and position objects underwater ...

Sound waves have been used for everything from mapping the seafloor to breaking apart kidney stones. Thanks to a unique material structure, researchers can now move and position objects underwater ...