A hippo makes waves with the loudest, goofiest sounds in the water.

Gwyneth Paltrow is under fire after campaigning for a non-invasive cancer treatment called histotripsy - with disappointed fans slamming her for advising treatment when she is not a medical ...

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

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According to the team, this discovery not only advances understanding of time crystals but could also help understand natural ...

Physicists at NYU have discovered a new type of time crystal—an exotic state of matter whose particles rhythmically “tick” while levitating on sound waves.

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 ...

About midmorning on Sunday, as the temperature crept above freezing, the ice sheet on Boysen Reservoir started making sounds like something out of ...

This alternative therapy works by using specific, resonating frequencies that encourage the body to enter a restorative, ...

The US band’s brawny, pit-inciting riffs come laced with blurry waves of distortion, making for music that is oddly reflective and melancholy ...

Advances in ultrasound—the same imaging technology that uses sound waves to allow doctors to monitor babies in utero—are being applied by engineers at the University of California San Diego to make ...