For the first time, researchers at MIT have visually captured a bizarre wave of pure heat moving through an exotic state of ...

Alternatively, data from all transducers can be used while limiting the focal depth, allowing more transmit-receive pulses to ...

In laboratories from Brazil to Munich, researchers are learning to grab matter with sound alone, sculpting ultrasonic waves ...

Sound is not just something we hear—it’s vibration, and vibration interacts directly with the human body at a cellular level.

Using a newly devised technology, scientists can move small objects without touching them, meaning we're one step closer to ...

Explore New Year’s Eve traditions around the world, from sound and fire to movement and food, and the meaning behind them.

Forward-looking: When wildfires sweep through the dry hills outside Los Angeles, homes can be lost in moments. A California startup imagines a different outcome: as embers fall and nearby brush ...

How do we like the music that we like? The answer involves more than our brain—it also involves our body. Understanding this process is a focus of Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., a music neuroscientist at the ...

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 ...

With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. The crowd roars when they walk across the ...

A soft microrobot with zinc oxide nanorods uses ultrasound to generate localized reactive oxygen species, offering a precise method to kill bacteria without relying on systemic antibiotics. (Nanowerk ...