Carefully timed sounds can make fluid waves larger in the sleeping brain, giving researchers a new way to study how brain activity and CSF flow are connected.

During the day, waste products such as lactic acid and worn-out proteins build up in the brain. When we sleep at night, waves ...

The human brain flushes out waste products while we sleep and now it seems that certain sounds might enhance the process ...

Black hole ringdowns could reveal signs of surrounding matter or new physics, giving scientists a new way to test gravity in ...

Saturn's decagonal wave, a new Zika detection method, and insights into inner speech.

When a New Glenn rocket spectacularly blew apart at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in May, it released ultra-low-frequency sound waves that reached as far as Texas. Researchers estimate ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a fast, simple way to turn lignin, a plentiful ...

Build a DIY rubber band instrument and explore sound, vibration, and pitch in this hands-on STEM activity for kids ages 6–12.

Five Chinese students developed DiveGuard, a low-cost device enabling divers to send short text messages underwater using ...

A 16-by-16 array of 40-kilohertz ultrasonic transducers—frequencies too high for humans to hear—generated the beam. Properly ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous 10-sided wave pattern in the icy ammonia clouds over Saturn's south pole. A ...