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 ...

Every time NASA or the European Space Agency releases an audio clip from deep space, millions of listeners assume they are ...

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

When people watch a scene in the film "Jurassic Park" where a giant dinosaur walks toward them, they naturally imagine a heavy, rumbling sound, as if the ground were shaking. This is because humans ...

Learn more about the physics of the inner ear and how it works to pick up the faintest of sounds. Sitting in traffic can expose a driver to intense irritation, as well as a range of sound frequencies.

Upper limit: a US Navy F/A-18 travelling near the speed of sound in air. The white halo comprises water droplets that have condensed from the air because of the sudden drop in pressure behind the ...

Although few people ever get the chance to travel at the speed of sound, it is an alluring flight goal and an impressive technological feat. Though average people have flown at high speeds on ...

Ordinarily, light transmits the same in both directions: if I can see you, you can see me. Now, however, researchers have created a device that uses travelling sound waves to break this symmetry, ...