More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young amazed the scientific world when he showed that light behaves like both a ...

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

The acoustic properties of an ultracold fermion gas have been measured either side of the superfluid transition temperature in an experiment that has been described as “near perfect” and “beautiful”.

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Although few people ever get the chance to travel at the speed of sound, it is an alluring flight goal and an impressive technological feat. Though average people have flown at high speeds on ...