Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

The new pump has no moving parts. “Instead, it relies on thermoacoustics, the interaction between sound waves and heat, to move thermal energy,” Interesting Engineering writes. The pump uses that ...

The latest salvo in this endless war comes from the forums of audio enthusiast site diyAudio (via Tom’s Hardware ), where a forum member by the name of Pano devised a blind test to look at how much ...

You know the moment. Someone starts chewing a little too loudly. A phone rings at the worst possible time. A person in front ...

The best-selling author grapples with big questions about A.I., consciousness and the distractions polluting our minds.

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...

The old rules said you had to choose: stealth or speed. The US picked stealth. Russia went fast. China is trying to throw away the rule book. Chinese researchers unveiled a development in aircraft ...

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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 ...

Ever wondered about the physics of mosh pits and circle pits? If so, you're not alone, because earlier this week, Max Sebastian, a subscriber to the podcast The Rest Is Science, posed a question for ...