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

It might look like a quirky plastic model of an ancient Egyptian pyramid, but this model is in fact a 3D 'acoustic cloak', created using just a few perforated sheets of plastic. The device reroutes ...

Paris based design studio NOCC have produced a range of objects whose forms are generated according to the shape of sound waves recorded when their names are pronounced. The collection, named Object ...

Sound waves may not appear to hold much power, but scientists believe directing them in the right way could allow them to hide objects and even levitate them in the air. Researchers in the US have ...

Chinese researchers from the Beijing Institute of Technology have created a microphone that, unlike traditional ones, picks up light rather than air vibrations. It is noted, that the innovative ...

We can hear sounds because our ears turn sound vibrations from the air, into signals that are sent to our brain. We can’t hear all levels of sounds. Sound waves with very high frequencies are called ...