When high-voltage electricity breaks out in open air, it rips through the atmosphere, forming chaotic, branching fingers of electric plasma. These electrical arcs are difficult to control. They branch ...

To me it was like knives inside my body—like someone stabbing me from the inside.”* That’s how Noémie Elhadad describes the ...

A man with Alzheimer's, knowing there's no cure for the disease, donned a million-dollar helmet for a cutting-edge treatment directing nearly a thousand beams of ultrasound energy at a target in his ...

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

Promising new research has raised the possibility of treating type 2 diabetes without drugs. Across three different animal models researchers have demonstrated how short bursts of ultrasound targeted ...

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 ...

Patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, glioblastoma, who received MRI-guided focused ultrasound with standard-of-care chemotherapy had a nearly 40 percent increase in overall survival in a ...

The team is looking for volunteer collaborators within the car industry who could spare the funds to finance a prototype ...

WASHINGTON — After more than a decade, the American College of Rheumatology has developed new draft guidance for the use of musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) to help with diagnosis, monitoring, and ...

The proposal is based on their findings which show for the first time that hedgehogs can hear high-frequency ultrasound.

Scientists discover hedgehogs hear ultrasound, opening the possibility of warning sounds that keep them away from roads.