Ascending scale: sound waves rise as they travel through media. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/Appler) A new theoretical study has revealed how sound waves transfer small amounts of mass as they travel.

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It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...