I explain how certain sound waves could potentially harm humans under specific conditions.

Sometimes, even the simplest things can set off a quantum phenomenon.

The new pump has no moving parts. “Instead, it relies on thermoacoustics, the interaction between sound waves and heat, to move thermal energy,” Interesting Engineering writes. The pump uses that ...

Scientists in Brazil have transformed cocoa waste into a functional chocolate-infused honey packed with antioxidants and ...

Did you know? Sound from another planet, the wind on Mars, has been recorded and made audible with the help of headphones and ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

Arts and Science researchers developed particles that use sound waves to swing in the air without external forces to determine their rate of oscillation. The discovery could further research on other ...

Films have always had a penchant for imagining technologies that were meant for ages ...

Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

Acoustic rainbows” sound psychedelic. But the idea is no acid trip: By dispersing sound waves, noisy objects can actually be ...

“Our system is remarkable because it’s incredibly simple,” said paper author and physicist David Grier of New York University ...

A brief pulse of ultrasound can gently influence a split second decision by stimulating a small brain area linked to eye movements.