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Explore the most exciting new ideas and emerging concepts in science, health, technology and the environment with New Scientist’s exclusive in-depth articles, interviews and long reads.
Airflow induced by electric fields, known as ionic wind, has already propelled a small aircraft – now engineers think it could help to ease the clean-energy transition and protect infrastructure from natural winds
Sonic tractor beams lift and manipulate objects with sound waves. They could be used to precisely deliver drugs inside our bodies or assemble delicate computer chips in mid air