Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

In context: Sound waves typically propagate in forward and backward directions. This natural movement is problematic in some situations where unwanted reflections cause interference or reduced ...

Sound is usually something we hear, not something we touch. But researchers at Virginia Tech have found a way to turn ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, smearing process that never looks anything like a crisp sound wave. Yet ...

Optical neural networks may provide the high-speed and large-capacity solution necessary to tackle challenging computing tasks. However, tapping their full potential will require further advances. One ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease. But a new cancer treatment method ...