Researchers in China recently uncovered a quantum-inspired rule governing how sound is scattered by certain physical ...

A team of scientists has succeeded in cooling traveling sound waves in wave-guides considerably further than has previously been possible using laser light. This achievement represents a significant ...

Every time NASA releases a new audio clip tied to a black hole or a distant nebula, millions of listeners share it as proof that space has a voice. It does not. Sound waves are mechanical vibrations ...

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Yushun Zeng squishes cancer cells in a petri dish at work. No, not with his ungainly, macroscopic human fingers. Zeng, an engineering graduate student at the University of Southern California, has ...

On the rise. Signs of convection are seen in the motion of hot gas under the influence of a gravity-like acoustic force in a spherical glass container. The images were recorded 15, 40, and 140 ...

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

"We don't need to go into space to do these experiments anymore." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists have replicated the ...