Taking inspiration from a popular executive toy ("Newton's cradle"), researchers have built a device -- called a nonlinear acoustic lens -- that produces highly focused, high-amplitude acoustic ...

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Sound waves are used in many imaging applications, but they're often underpowered and hard to focus. But focus them into "sound bullets" and all sorts of interesting things happen. A paper published ...

A laser is shone at the intended target, the bullet is fired, and the chip uses the fins to adjust the bullet's trajectory in mid-flight. It doesn't offer quite the same implications as the totally ...

It's been almost a year since we heard any sort of official update regarding Halo Infinite, the next installment in Microsoft's premiere first-person shooter series. However, that hasn't stopped ...

One of Britain’s oldest automakers, Bristol Cars Limited, recently launched and it sounds like a World War 2 fighter plane. Unsurprisingly, since Bristol is the last remaining descendant that retains ...