Indian mobile commerce company Paytm plans to test ultrasonic sound waves for mobile payments. Paytm will add a “Sound Pay” icon to its mobile app. When a consumer presses the icon, sound waves will ...

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.

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In a groundbreaking achievement, NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet has shattered the sound barrier without the disruptive sonic boom ...

IN a Chicago laboratory a test tube full of water containing a squirming goldfish was placed for half a minute in a device which produces silent sound waves, pitched far beyond the topmost notes of a ...

Sound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, the ocean is absorbing vast amounts of that ...

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Car enthusiasts will pay hundreds of dollars for stereo systems that will improve the sound quality in their cars. However, ...