Wild ‘Waterbending’ Technique Uses Waves to Steer Floating Objects With Precision
Researchers manipulated water waves to move ping pong balls with a level of precision that seems straight out of a sci-fi movie.
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Wave sorcery: Scientists bend water to control floating objects like magic
“We’ve shown that water waves can be used to precisely move floating objects as small as rice grains,” said Assistant ...
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Trippy photos show how beautiful water can look when it's blasted with sound
Called a cymascope, it's designed to create and tune repeating patterns of waves, like those formed in ... quarter-inch-deep dish of water vibrated by a speaker. The camera peers down on the ...
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Novel technique manipulates water waves to precisely control floating objects
"We've shown that water waves can be used to precisely move floating objects as small as rice grains. Future research could study even smaller waves such as those on the scale of cells that are ...
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Researchers co-led by NTU Singapore develop technique to manipulate water waves to precisely control floating objects
The method involves generating and merging water waves to create complex surface patterns, such as twisting loops and swirling vortices. Laboratory experiments showed that these patterns can pull in ...
Water bending technique can guide floating objects with remarkable precision
The idea was inspired by earlier work involving light that was conducted by Shen Yijie. A co-lead on the new project, Yijie realized that light and ...
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Technique to manipulate water waves to precisely control floating objects
"We've shown that water waves can be used to precisely move floating objects as small as rice grains. Future research could study even smaller waves such as those on the scale of cells that are ...