Using sound waves, researchers have developed a gentle, contact-free method for separating circulating tumor cells from blood samples that is fast and efficient enough for clinical use. The ability to ...

Save your breath: A new way to make bubbles requires only sound waves. Scientists made the bubbles in levitated drops of liquid, held aloft with sound waves. Tweaking the sound waves caused the ...

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- A prototype device developed by an international team of engineers can sift exceedingly tiny particles from blood samples without having to send samples off to a lab. The device, which ...

(Nanowerk News) Microfluidics is an emerging technology that deals with liquid flows on the microscale. The efficient actuation of liquid and the manipulation of microscale objects are fundamental to ...

Researchers at Concordia University have devised a way to solidify liquid into plastic, creating a 3D-printing option that could be used to implement medical implants directly inside a patient's body.

Argonne scientist Chris Benmore places droplets of pharmaceutical solution in an acoustic levitator, a device that uses sound waves to defy gravity, allowing light objects and droplets of liquid to be ...

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with this freaky adaptive liquid-lens that can capture 250 in-focus images per second. It’s essentially droplets of water in a pair, trapped ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Using sound waves, an international team of researchers has developed a gentle, contact-free method for separating circulating tumor cells from blood samples that is fast and efficient ...