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 ...

Norris, a distinguished professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, is developing honeycomb-like metallic structures that reroute sound ...

Okay, so it’s 2014 and it seems like our futuristic dreams of jetpacks are mostly a bust. Ahhh, but what about another sci-fi staple — what about levitation? That might be a lot closer than you think, ...

No smoke, no mirrors, just sound was all scientists needed to levitate objects in midair. NPR reports that researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new levitation technique through ...

Something struck NASA’s Stardust spacecraft at a speed that defied all expectations—an object moving at nearly 13,650 miles ...

Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated, but it causes multiple particles to ...

While Sensitive Object sounds like a gift shop for ladies who love kitties and angels, it is, in fact, a French company that creates interface systems based on temporal reversal. Apparently if you tap ...

The pattern is repeating every 16 hours. The post The Mysterious Interstellar Object Appears to Be Pulsing in a “Heartbeat ...

HOBE SOUND, Fla. — A massive and mysterious object is causing a lot of buzz after washing up on Hobe Sound beach Monday morning. Ken Mears and Mike Gomes took pictures of the debris, which was found ...

A new "tractor beam" can levitate large objects in midair, using only sound. So far, researchers have floated spheres as large as 0.6 inches (16 millimeters) in diameter and moved orbs as large as 0.8 ...