Quantum computers promise enormous computational power, but the nature of quantum states makes computation and data ...

New audio tech could let you listen privately without headphones With acoustic metasurfaces, researchers bend sound waves to their will ...

AI headphones create a 'sound bubble,' quieting all sounds more than a few feet away Date: November 15, 2024 Source: University of Washington Summary: Researchers have created a headphone ...

Phonons – Sound Signals or Vibrations That Spread Through a Solid Material The signal consists of phonons – which can be translated to what one might call vibrations in a solid material.

It might sound like science fiction, but 2024 has brought us closer to this reality thanks to breakthroughs in computer science.

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