The film explores the nature of sound waves, demonstrating how sound travels as a wave through air, which acts as a medium. It illustrates sound generation using a loudspeaker, examines oscillation, ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

Scientists at ETH Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have developed a device that directs sound waves in one direction without wasting energy. This breakthrough sound wave ...

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Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One ...

Walking from 37th Street onto the beach, the sound of crashing waves could be heard Wednesday alongside the sound of cheers. Autistic children and young adults were cutting through the waves on ...

It’s a question I’m sure was keeping you up at night: can you make an object spin with a sound wave? The answer, generally speaking, used to be no. Now, though, mechanical engineers have taken a look ...

Scientists have harnessed sound waves to break a fundamental barrier in next-gen electronics. By using surface acoustic waves instead of traditional electricity to control 2D materials, they can now ...

Scientists from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia have managed to regrow bone by firing high-frequency sound waves at stem cells, a potential breakthrough in regenerative ...