Tuning forks are also used by practitioners in fields such as physiotherapy, sound healing, and alternative wellness, with a ...

New research reveals that an area in the brain known as the inferior colliculus plays a critical role in processing both sound and touch in the form of mechanical vibrations to create an augmented ...

Negative-stiffness vibration isolation has significantly improved performance over traditional air tables and active vibration isolation methods, providing improved sound quality for audiophiles with ...

(By Yukari Mitsuhashi, The Bridge) – At first glance this tiny device looks like an ordinary accessory, but this product is a little more specialized than it appears. Ontenna is a device that, when ...

Each December, Harvard University professors give a holiday science lecture for kids that’s open to the public. In the 2010 lecture, Good Vibrations: How We Communicate on sound and vibration, given ...

Researchers have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the same tiny space. Researchers at the California ...

Apple is investigating ways to make the iPhone's "silent mode" truly silent by monitoring audible sound levels generated by a phone's vibrator and adjusting the mechanism if it becomes too loud. Since ...

Smart devices can seem dumb if they don't understand what's happening around them. Researchers say environmental awareness can be enhanced by analyzing sound and vibrations. The researchers report ...

Increasing the efficiency of a hybrid solar cell simply by placing it near a source of ambient noise or vibration would be a boon for photovoltaics in urban areas, in the military, or on machinery or ...

Using sound waves instead of water to extinguish flames? This is not the stuff of science fiction but a new firefighting ...