Despite advances in computer-generated image technology, most sound effects for films and virtual reality experiences are still recorded manually. Doug James, associate professor of computer science ...

Traditional computer chips run on electricity, while the emerging photonic chips use light. Now, scientists at Harvard have demonstrated a new kind of chip that transmits data in the form of sound ...

Legos are a beloved staple of educational science activities and have even proved useful in particle physics experiments at CERN to explore the properties of hadrons. For Brian Anderson, a physicist ...

Quantum sounds: Hong Qiao (left) and Chris Conner working in Andrew Cleland’s lab at the University of Chicago. (Courtesy: Joel Wintermantle) Sound is very much a part of the classical, macroscopic ...

Benjamin J. Eggleton receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the NSW Government and the US Air-force Office of Scientific Research. Birgit Stiller and Moritz Merklein do not work for, ...

The processing power of standard computers is expected to reach its maximum in the next 10 to 25 years. But even at this maximum power, computers in their current form won't be able to handle certain ...