Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, smearing process that never looks anything like a crisp sound wave. Yet ...

A quiet revolution is taking shape in the world of physics, and it doesn’t rely on exotic particles or massive particle colliders. Instead, it begins with something much more familiar—sound.

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 ...

Helium leaks are hard to detect, since it is odorless, colorless, tasteless, and does not react with other chemical ...

There are five general senses: touch for feels, taste for food, smell for avoiding trash, hearing for sounds, and, of course, eyesight for visualizing the very waves making up that sound.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method ...

Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called “audible enclaves,” where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones ...