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

Virtual reality has made the idea of immersively placing us into strange new landscapes — whether real or imagined — not only plausible, but commonplace. But what about sound? Up until now, there’s ...

In his laboratory tucked into the basement of Princeton University's Von Neumann Hall, Edgar Choueiri creates illusions with sound. He can conjure a distant trumpet or a voice whispering in your ear, ...

A new feature on many at-home devices, surround sound audio has become increasingly popular. Spatial sound, which gives listeners a “3D” sound experience, is considered to be similar to a movie ...

A scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory won a MacArthur “genius grant” on Wednesday for his efforts to restore historic audio recordings. Carl Haber, an experimental physicist at the ...

One of our five powerful sound and music composition workstations is installed in this room and connected to a mastering-quality surround system and contrasting URIE large format studio monitors.

Traditionally, it’s been remarkably difficult to properly find dead spots in a speaker’s output, but scientists at the British National Physical Laboratory have started using lasers to accurately ...

How much attention do you pay to the sounds around you? If you listen, they can tell quite a story. That’s what some high school students learned while helping a local artist prepare what's being ...

Is the noise in your office or laboratory affecting you? Researchers assessed noise levels in both environments and found that the presence of certain types of sound and the degree of exposure were ...