Stanford researchers have recorded the first real-time quantum jumps of sound, watching single phonons abruptly vanish from one energy state to another. The breakthrough could open new paths for ...

Nicolas Bras has built more than 1,500 strange sonic experiments using reclaimed wood, scrap metal, and PVC pipe.

Gizmodo’s Human Generated is a series of profiles and interviews with some of the most inventive people working across tech, science, entertainment, and art. We go beyond the finished product to ...

MIT BUILT A STRADIVARIUS THAT HAS NEVER EXISTED, AND THEN MADE IT PLAY BACH There is a violin at MIT that weighs nothing. It has no wood in it, no varnish, no label glued inside the back, no three ...

A rocket launch is not for the faint of heart – and certainly not for sensitive electronics either. Nevertheless, satellites must survive the vibrations during launch unscathed. In collaboration with ...

We know that AI has helped us to make big advances in medical science: in mapping the human genome, and in solving for proteins (with Alphafold, etc) and in various kinds of diagn ...

There was a time when going online as a kid meant going somewhere built just for you. You logged into Club Penguin and waddled around as a colorful cartoon bird. You raised a Moshi Monster, or grew ...

Ph.D. candidate Natalia Seliutina has followed gemstones from the -30° temperatures of Siberia to the carving studios of ...

Universal History Archive / 2. In the 1920s, daredevil Gladys Roy played a full-on tennis match against stuntman Ivan Unger ...