Sound Bullets

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Sound Bullets

Postby wolfhnd on April 21st, 2010, 4:37 pm

An old toy has inspired a powerful new weapon that could destroy submarines or annihilate tumors.

Using a modified version of Newton's cradle, a series of stainless steel balls suspended by fishing wire, scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created a powerful weapon for soldiers and doctors known as a "sound bullet."


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