At University College London, Lesley sings I Dreamed a Dream inside an MRI scanner to reveal how her vocal tract acts as a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Headphone designers have to balance scientific limitations with human preferences. Vladimir Godnik via Getty Images Between music, ...

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.

One of the biggest problems facing speaker manufacturers is getting sufficient bass out of a less-than-sufficient space. Good, deep bass sound requires a lot of space to push sufficient amounts of air ...

More than 300 parents, kids and volunteers participated in "The Physics of Sound: Waves, Vibrations and Music" STEM Saturday on Jan. 27 at the Pete Sanchez Multi-Center in New Orleans. Organized by ...

What are the loudest sounds at UB? Where are the university’s quietest spots? What unlikely noises here are around 60 decibels, the level typically associated with a normal conversation between two ...

The film "What Is Sound?" from 1949 explores the concept of sound, explaining that sound is produced by vibrations of objects. It demonstrates various experiments showing how sounds are created and ...

Scientists at MIT have directly captured signs of “second sound” in a superfluid for the first time. This bizarre phenomenon occurs when heat moves like sound waves through an unusual state of matter.

A crucial building block for quantum computers based on sound has been shown to work for the first time. One popular way of building quantum computers is to encode information into quantum states of ...

Although few people ever get the chance to travel at the speed of sound, it is an alluring flight goal and an impressive technological feat. Though average people have flown at high speeds on ...

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This free app lets you play around with smartphone sensors you probably didn't know existed.