The fact that butterflies had ears remained a mystery to science until 1912, when the first such structures were ever identified. Since then, researchers have analyzed them on all sides, and have discovered that the organs, far from being similar in all butterfly species, were in fact extremely diverse and different.... |
26 October 2009
19:41 GMT |
 |
|
Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently managed to create an innovative, new device that may have the ability to boost the power of ultrasound medical devices and submarine radars by more than 800 percent. The new acoustic hyperlens is ... |
26 October 2009
03:25 GMT |
|
|
For over 60 years, researchers have wondered why the nose of the Bourret's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus paradoxolophus) is so abnormally large for the animal's size. In a new scientific study that saw the participation of Virginia Tech faculty members, it was proven that the bat actually developed its nose no... |
8 July 2009
05:56 GMT |
|
|
Researchers at the Israel Institute of Technology (IIT) have managed to create a sonic black hole, a device based on Einstein-Bose condensates that is able to trap sound waves, basically acting in very much the same way a cosmic black hole does when absorbing visible light from the electromagnetic spectrum. The devic... |
18 June 2009
09:50 GMT |
|
|
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UI) have managed to create a new type of metamaterial that is able to guide sound waves through very tiny structures. The innovation could have significant applications in the field of medicine, as well as for new military devices. Doctors could use it ... |
16 June 2009
16:41 GMT |
|
|
