News tagged with tuning fork

How hummingbirds produce fluttering sounds during courtship

Though famous for their mid-air hovering during hunting, tiny hummingbirds have another trait that is literally telltale: males of some hummingbird species generate loud sounds with their tail feathers while ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Robots learn to handle objects, understand places

(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and manipulating objects, and they are very flexible about it: Cups can come in different shapes and sizes, but they ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

UMaine assists podiatrist with electronic tuning fork invention

An Orono podiatrist is on the cusp of a technological breakthrough with a new medical instrument — an electronic tuning fork — that he’s developing with assistance from students and staff at the University ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of a different resonance in atomic force microscopy enhances resolution

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a highly sensitive form of microscopy that makes it possible to map a surface with near-atomic resolution. Shaw Wei Kok and colleagues from A*STAR’s Singapore Institute ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0