Researchers at the University of Twente have solved a long-standing problem: trapping optically-generated sound waves in a standard silicon photonic chip. This discovery, published as a featured ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

Scientists have unlocked a previously unseen behavior of acoustic waves, opening up new possibilities for cutting-edge ...

So-called Rayleigh–Bloch waves can release an enormous amount of energy that can damage technical systems under certain circumstances. They only exist below a precisely defined cut-off frequency ...

When converted to audio, the chorus waves resembled the sound of birds chirping at dawn. Richard Horne, a space weather expert with the British Antarctic Survey, called the findings “a ...

Bikers are in a club of their own even if they don't know each other and that club includes private waves. It's called the biker wave and it's pretty simple with four total. The wave with two ...

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space ... frequency when they are converted to audio. “They sound very much like birdsong at dawn,” says Richard ...

Scientists have detected strange chirping waves — which resemble the dawn chorus of birds — thousands of miles from Earth, and they could pose big problems for future spaceflight. Chorus waves ...

Editor's note: Boom Supersonic successfully broke the sound barrier with the XB-1 today in a major milestone. Read our coverage here. Boom Supersonic plans to break the sound barrier during a test ...

We've talked about what sound waves are, now let's establish why they can help you sleep. The legacy of sleep sounds, white noise has lulled people to sleep for ages. Because white noise ...

After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 scale prototype finally broke the sound barrier during a livestream event—not once, not twice, but three times.