Sound can induce changes in cells and one team of researchers think this could be an effective way to manipulate their behavior, including for the treatment of disease. Sound waves are variations in ...

Sound waves travel through different types of matter, including liquid water. Importantly, the movement of ocean water can ...

A group of international researchers have developed a way to use sound to generate different types of wave patterns on the ...

trumpet the sound from the trumpet comes from a vibrating column of air created by buzzing lips of the trumpeter A sound wave is a longitudinal wave. When an object vibrates it produces a ...

As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound.

Sound is a vibration that travels through air as a wave. These waves are created when an object moves back and forth, compressing and decompressing air molecules. The frequency of these vibrations is ...

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