Listen to the Sound of the Most Massive Organism on Earth

The most massive known organism on the planet covers over 100 acres in Sevier County, Utah—it’s an aspen stand named Pando ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, NASA’s Experimental X-59 Plane Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Setting the Stage for ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Aircraft

The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are ...

Watch NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Break the Sound Barrier for the First Time

NASA’s X-59 aircraft has finally flown faster than the speed of sound, bringing us one step closer to supersonic flight ...

Chip-scale 'acoustic atom' controls sound waves to imitate atomic energy levels and advance computing

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. What goes up must come down. Physical laws like these govern all ...
Wall Street Journal

Sound Wave, an Alzheimer’s-Therapy Startup, Raises $17 Million

Japanese medical startup Sound Wave Innovation, which aims to cure Alzheimer’s disease with ultrasound therapy, has raised about $17 million from investors, including Singapore-based venture capital ...
Phys.org

Visualizing sound: Scientists reveal hidden behaviors of sound waves

An international team of scientists has developed a new analysis of how sound waves behave, revealing surprising effects that have largely been overlooked for decades. In the new paper in Scientific ...
Wall Street Journal

Japanese Alzheimer’s Startup Sound Wave Raises About $17 Million

Japanese medical startup Sound Wave Innovation, which aims to cure Alzheimer’s disease with ultrasound therapy, has raised about $17 million from investors, including Singapore-based venture capital ...
New York Post

Firefighters show off amazing new way to extinguish flames — by blasting them with sound, not water

The sound you can’t hear might just save your house. It sounds like something out of a sci-fi blockbuster, but firefighters in California are firing up a fascinating new way to fight flames — with ...
Popular Mechanics

Scientists Are Using Sound Waves to Bend Materials to Their Will

In physics, a mechanical kink marks the point of transition between different internal states of a material. Researchers have now succeeded in creating a model in which they were able to move the kink ...
ABC7 San Francisco

San Bernardino Co. tests fighting fires with oxygen vibrations, sound waves instead of water

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (KGO) -- The San Bernardino County Fire Department is testing a new firefighting system that uses sound waves instead of water to extinguish flames. It may sound like something ...
KTLA

Southern California fire department using sound waves to fight fires as alternative to water

Water has long been the go-to when it comes to fighting a fire. But what about sound waves? It might be hard to wrap your head around the concept at first, but the San Bernardino County Fire ...
CBS News

San Bernardino County firefighters testing sound wave technology to battle fires

The San Bernardino County Fire Department tested new technology on Monday designed to help suppress fires by using sound waves. The live demonstration, which was conducted with Sonic Fire Tech, ...