Electronic devices are usually thought of as securely and safely mounted in a protective enclosure or sitting on a table top, yet portable devices require completely different standards to which ...

Phonons bring good vibrations to quantum physicists. This is an Inside Science story. “I'm picking up good vibrations. She's giving me excitations.” Little did The Beach Boys know their 1966 hit was ...

Researchers have developed a new device that can be used to visualize how sound-induced vibrations travel through the ear. The technology is providing new insight into how the ear receives and ...

Digital image correlation (DIC) has emerged as a pivotal non-contact method for capturing full-field structural responses, offering a robust alternative to conventional sensor-based techniques. In the ...

The World Health Organization reports that 360 million people worldwide are affected by hearing loss, generally caused by disease, accidents or damage to middle-ear structures. Researchers at ...

If you’ve ever mistaken a truck idling outside for a minor earthquake, this news will come as no surprise: The vibrations from traffic create seismic waves that ripple through the earth below us. The ...

The extraordinary sensitivity of the mammalian ear is commonly attributed to the cochlear amplifier, a cellular process thought to locally boost responses of the cochlear partition to soft sounds.