A group of international researchers have developed a way to use sound to generate different types of wave patterns on the surface of water and use those patterns to precisely control and steer ...

The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your ...

In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — including halting fat development. ... water or even tissue.

They then played 1,590Hz sound waves from the speaker array to glide the ball through a pre-planned path while microphones detected feedback known as a scattering matrix as it bounced off the ball.

Yet water doesn’t mute sound, but amplifies it. Sound waves travel 4.3 times faster underwater than they do in the air and they retain their energy for much longer.

Since sound is made up of mechanical waves that travel through substances like air, water or tissue, the researchers designed a system to "bathe cultured cells in acoustic waves".

By varying the amplitude and phase of the sound waves, the researchers were able to vary the wavefronts that reached the ball. These waves then interact with the medium and cause the ball to move.

Japanese researchers discovered that specific sound frequencies (440 Hz and 14 kHz) can alter gene expression in mice cells, inhibiting fat cell differentiation and reducing lipid accumulation.

Sound waves travel through different types of matter, including liquid water. Importantly, the movement of ocean water can greatly affect how sound waves travel from one point to another.