Physically, sound is just pressure moving through a medium. If you harness that pressure correctly, you can actually push things around using nothing but sound. That's exactly what researchers at ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves into invisible “hands” that can lift, push, and rotate objects without a ...

The songwriter, guitarist and singer, who died at 78, animated the Grateful Dead from within. By Jon Pareles Bob Weir — the Grateful Dead’s rhythm guitarist and one of its songwriters and lead singers ...

A team using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a new type of astronomical object—a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud that is considered a "relic" or remnant of early galaxy ...

Planets usually stay close to their host stars, tracing steady paths shaped by gravity. Yet some planets break free and drift alone through the Milky Way. Astronomers call these objects free-floating ...

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Original broadcast on the PBS television program Nova. Special features: Interview with Donna Shirley of NASA. Narrator, Neil Ross. In January 2004, two spacecraft (named Spirit and Opportunity) ...