Ripples, like ones produced by raindrops falling in a puddle, are also called capillary waves. Studied since antiquity, they ...

Electricity is chaotic, and we normally need to constrain it to wires and circuits to make use of it. Scientists in Europe and Canada have now managed to guide sparks through thin air and even around ...

During treatment, ultrasound waves enter a patient’s skull to precisely heat and destroy specific regions deep inside the brain that generate tremors. Typically, the tremor is gone immediately ...

Halifax-based medtech startup Sound Blade has secured $16.5 million USD ($23.8 million CAD) in Series A funding to develop its handheld device for eliminating liver tumours non-invasively.

It was also found that the crossing of acoustic waves creates more than one well. The wells are distributed in a grid pattern ...

Among those with intermediate-risk prostate cancer, high PSA levels prior to HIFU led to an increased risk of overall ...

Dr. Zachary Levine, a board-certified neurosurgeon at GW Hospital and a fellow of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, uses MRI technology to guide ultrasound waves in real time to ...

A doctor may refer to potentially blocked veins as echogenic. This means they contain material that causes ultrasound waves from the scan to bounce off it, such as a clot. An ultrasound may also ...