Manipulated by sound waves, these floating particles can offer clues about the physics of asteroids and black holes.

In previous work on levitation system s, researchers had used transducers to produce sound waves, and reflectors to reflect the waves back, thus creating standing waves.

Gadgets Sound Waves Let Researchers Build Stuff With the Force A new acoustic levitation device is even capable of picking up and placing drops of glue.

Researchers from the University College London (UCL) have developed a self-correcting acoustic levitation system, which can levitate objects by firing sound waves at them, essentially just by ...

Lim and colleagues used sound waves to levitate the plastic beads, which arranged themselves into two-dimensional clumps. Acoustic forces attract the beads to one another, mimicking the ...

STORY: A UK startup is using soundwaves to make objects levitate in midair. And London-based AcoustoFab says it's "acoustic levitation" is not just a neat trick.It could also have commercial ...

Precisely sculpted sound waves have been used to levitate components and tiny droplets of quick-setting glue to build complex structures piece by piece in mid-air. The approach may have practical ...

LONDON — Music blasts can't quite lift you off your feet just yet, but making droplets levitate with sound may be the first step in that direction. A team of researchers demonstrated experimentally ...

This force is well known in acoustic levitation experiments, in which sound waves scattering off an object, such as a small bead, can exert a force (see Synopsis: Tossing and Turning).

Futuristic it may seem, but the idea of using sound waves to levitate tiny objects is something we've seen demonstrated in a number of interesting ways. Scientists in Japan have now added another ...

Researchers from Brazil and Uruguay have developed the most stable, flexible way yet to levitate objects using sound; next step is for robots to use it in factories to move parts without touching ...

LONDON — Music blasts can't quite lift you off your feet just yet, but making droplets levitate with sound may be the first step in that direction. A team of researchers demonstrated ...