Through studying how sound travels in soap foams, French researchers have devised an intriguing method to closely observe the mechanisms at play when a soap ...

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In a concert ecosystem increasingly shaped by microphones, mixers and monitor speakers, Soulfest 2025 arrives with a radical proposition: just turn everything o ...

Walking into a laboratory where experiments are conducted without human hands may sound like science fiction, but researchers at IIT Delhi have made ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, smearing process that never looks anything like a crisp sound wave. Yet ...

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Da Minot arrives at Bangkok Mojo carrying the kind sound that lived in. The collective comes from Shillong in India, drawing on rhythms and melodies rooted in t ...

Composer Nicholas Britell tells IndieWire about getting to run conceptual musical experiments that make George Clooney even ...

When Don Jazzy announced the signing of Johnny Drille to Mavin Records in 2017, many Nigerians were surprised. Mavin was ...

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The setup of the experiment in the optical lab, with the semiconductor crystal containing the double slits in the centre. Credit: Leiden University. More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young ...