Sound travels in waves called sound waves. Sound waves travel through particles, making them vibrate and collide with other particles. This bumping and vibrating continues, passing from particle ...

Sound waves travel through different types of matter, including liquid water. Importantly, the movement of ocean water can greatly affect how sound waves travel from one point to another.

Water does a much better job than air of conducting sound waves, but that extra conductivity makes it harder, not easier, to tell where a sound comes from.

Sound waves are produced by a vibrating object. Everything that makes a sound must have a part that vibrates.

From sound "canyons" to temperature inversion layers, we looked at the factors that influence how sound moves in the city.

Researchers have found that the sun's magnetic field allows the release of wave energy from its interior, permitting sound waves to travel through thin fountains, or "spicules", upward and into ...

So, researchers developed a method to make sound waves travel in only one direction. The innovation has far-reaching applications that go beyond acoustics, such as radar.

Researchers at ETH Zurich have managed to make sound waves travel only in one direction. In the future, this method could also be used in technical applications with electromagnetic waves.

Mesoscale eddies can affect how sound waves propagate in the ocean, depending on their size, speed, current direction and location. Understanding these effects are critical for accurate underwater ...