Almost 15% of adults suffer from a persistent, often intolerable sound... that is literally just in their heads. Why does the ...

NYU physicists accidentally found a way to make a time crystal using nothing but sound waves and tiny polystyrene beads. Time crystals are defined as particles that oscillate in a regular pattern with ...

It is a crucial component in superconducting quantum architectures, where even minimal noise can overwhelm a qubit's delicate state. In conventional designs, energy losses in dielectric ...

I explain how certain sound waves could potentially harm humans under specific conditions.

In the pursuit of powerful and stable quantum computers, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed the theory for an entirely new quantum system – based on the novel ...

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 ...

Casimir cavities are mysterious spaces between microscopic metal plates in a vacuum. Areas of diminished energy between the plates cause them to push toward each other, as if trying to fill the ...

Physicists at NYU have discovered a new type of time crystal—an exotic state of matter whose particles rhythmically “tick” while levitating on sound waves.

Acoustic tweezers use sound waves to create a potential-energy well that can hold an object in place – they are the acoustic ...

A team of New York University researchers announced in early February 2026 that they had created “levitating” time crystals, tiny particles suspended by sound waves that appear to defy Newton’s third ...

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...