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Ravi Tutika, Chanhong Lee, and Michael Bartlett test an Octa-Glove prototype. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.
Ravi Tutika, Chanhong Lee, and Michael Bartlett test an Octa-Glove prototype. Photo by Alex Parrish for Virginia Tech.

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Turning materials into music (video)

In the lab of Pinar Acara, undergraduate researchers Sofia Cassara and Bumin Sansa have created a way to observe the properties of metamaterials with sound instead of sight.