Discover how Electroencephalography (EEG) records brain activity to diagnose epilepsy, strokes, and sleep disorders. Learn ...

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to ...

Concrete structures like roads and bridges require nondestructive testing methods to identify interior defects without destroying their structure. Most methods send sound waves into the material and ...

African elephants create low rumbles that travel through the earth, letting other elephants detect messages through vibrations.

While it's not exactly "build it and they will come," nature-based shoreline erosion-control structures such as living shorelines offer increased protection when they successfully attract and grow ...

California-based Sonic Fire Tech has developed a new fire suppression system that uses sound waves to vibrate oxygen molecules, preventing them from readily mixing with fuel, disrupting combustion, ...

A wildfire burns in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, leaping from one patch of dry brush to another as it approaches a cluster of homes. The landscaping at the first house burns, but the house ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in Leiden has produced new insights that could be applied in 5G devices and the ...

I’m one of about 60 people lying on individual air mattresses, drifting along the surface of the pool inside the giant, glass Natatorium at the Dublin Wave Water Park and Aquatic Center. On this ...

Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer interface startup, suggesting a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Altman taps a leading researcher for his brain-computer ...

As synthesizers and drum machines became more affordable in the 1980s, novel technology became as common in new wave groups as guitars were in the punk and rock and roll bands that preceded them. This ...

The content discusses the fundamentals of acoustics, focusing on sound refraction, the anatomy of the ear, and how sound waves are perceived. It explains how sound travels through the ear, the ...