As drones survey forests, robots navigate warehouses and sensors monitor city streets, more of the world's decision-making is ...

These are essentially reasonably large two-way floorstanders with a rectangular wooden cabinet and downward-firing reflex ...

It has been 11 years since I last wrote about feedback, so I thought it was time to return to that topic. Most of us have ...

A new scientific study is giving fresh hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease by using something very simple sound. Researchers say a special sound frequency may help the brain remove harmful ...

Researchers have added to a stack of existing evidence that 40 Hz gamma frequencies could help to treat Alzheimer's disease.

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

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 ...

In fiction, magic makes levitation easy. With a simple swish-and-flick of his wand, Ron Weasley yanks a troll’s club high above its head in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Through graceful ...

California-based Sonic Fire Tech has developed a new fire suppression system that uses sound waves to vibrate oxygen molecules, preventing them from readily mixing with fuel, disrupting combustion, ...

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 ...

For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a combination of them all. But a new approach is beginning to offer something very ...