Water has long been the go-to when it comes to fighting a fire. But what about sound waves? It might be hard to wrap your ...

The San Bernardino County Fire Department tested new technology on Monday designed to help suppress fires by using sound ...

Engineers have long searched for cleaner ways to fight fires without relying on water or chemicals. In 2015, two George Mason University students, Viet Tran and Seth Robertson, developed a portable ...

Scientists have created a new kind of time crystal using sound waves to levitate tiny beads in mid-air. These particles ...

UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...

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Using inaudible sound waves to stop a fire may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but a local startup led by a former NASA researcher is developing a system capable of doing just ...

The future of non-invasive cancer therapy is bright. Liver tumors can now be destroyed—without radiation, chemotherapy or surgery—thanks to new medical technology known as histotripsy. Dr. Zendejas ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method from CU Boulder researchers uses sound waves to soften tumors and could be a ...

At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound is not reflected as it gets absorbed. But the quietness of these chambers always got me thinking of how ...