In a world where sound surrounds us—often uninvited and unavoidable—a team of researchers at Penn State University has ...

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Our ...

Directing sound to a specific location is difficult because of how sound waves behave. As vibrations move through the air, ...

A team of researchers at Penn State College of Engineering have been fine-tuning a technology that allows them to create ...

The principle is the same as the opera singer's trick, where a glass may shatter if the singer makes a high-pitched sound near to the glass. Ultrasound imaging creates a picture of something that ...

The researchers believe that these ‘whispering beams’ could be used to transmit personalized messages in public spaces, such ...

Readers, consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only ...