Researchers at ETH Zurich have managed to make sound waves travel only in one direction. In the future, this method could ...

In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave — including halting fat development.

The early warning system, Global Real-time Early Assessment of Tsunamis (GREAT), uses sound waves that travel through the ocean much faster than tsunamis and can be detected by underwater ...

Ocean waves have long been seen as having huge potential as a source of renewable energy. Waves produce an estimated 50 trillion to 80 trillion watts of power worldwide – nearly two to three ...

For the first time, researchers were able to transmit, or "tunnel," sound waves across extremely small distances between two crystals in a vacuum. For the first time, scientists have shown that ...

This might sound strange... Heavy metal music isn’t heavy after all – it is actually the opposite. Sound waves have mass and can interact via gravity, but that mass is negative. In other words ...

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This non-invasive device blasts apart tumors with sound waves. The tech recently received FDA approval, and will soon be available as a treatment option for patients in the US.

Sound waves travel by vibrating through the particles of a medium, such as air or water, from a source to a receiver. So in a vacuum, there is no travel medium.