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 head around the concept at first, but the San Bernardino County Fire ...

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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 ...

A team of researchers at RMIT University has developed a new coating method that sounds almost futuristic. Using ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gayle Anderson learns about Sonic Fire Tech, a startup company founded by former NASA engineers, that uses a patented technology ...

A new tool that assesses the level of danger posed by tsunamis in real-time has been made operational on a global scale. The early warning system, Global Real-time Early Assessment of Tsunamis (GREAT) ...

Now a new study suggests that using sound waves, neuromorphic devices can better mimic biological neurons and operate faster and with greater energy efficiecy than their electronic counterparts. “This ...

Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...

Using this model of a 1D material, researchers demonstrate a new way to remotely change a material's stiffness using sound waves. A team of researchers co-led by the University of California San Diego ...