Acoustics, as a research area, is the scientific study of generation, propagation, interaction, and detection of mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids across audible, infrasonic, and ultrasonic frequency ranges. It encompasses theoretical and experimental analysis of wave equations, sound fields, impedance, reflection, refraction, scattering, absorption, and nonlinear effects in complex media and structures. Subfields include physical acoustics, architectural acoustics, aeroacoustics, underwater and ocean acoustics, ultrasonics, vibroacoustics, and acoustical signal processing. Research in acoustics underpins technologies for imaging, nondestructive evaluation, noise control, transducer design, acoustic metamaterials, and advanced measurement techniques for characterizing materials, devices, and environments using sound.
A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female moths and found that they make a critical decision—where to lay their eggs—based on sounds emitted by ...
Plants & Animals
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More than a thousand fish species use sounds to exchange information, attract mates, and avoid predators through hums, grunts, clicks, and bubbles. Yet, the vital role of fish sounds—and the impact of noise pollution on ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2025
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An international group of researchers collected one hundred years' worth of sounds from around the world to investigate how soundscapes differ between urban and natural environments. They also examined how these soundscapes ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2025
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In a study published in Science Advances, researchers from Technical University of Denmark and Universidad Politécnica de Madrid demonstrate a new device called an acoustic rainbow emitter (ARE) that takes in broadband white-noise ...
Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego were able to "hear" the impacts of a marine heat wave and even economic slowdowns by analyzing 15 years of ocean sounds recorded ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 12, 2025
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Dozens of countries at the UN oceans summit on Tuesday took a first step toward recognizing an invisible but growing threat to marine life—underwater noise pollution.
Ecology
Jun 10, 2025
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Sounds are integral parts of any landscape. Think of the calls of grouse and curlew on the Pennine Moors. Wind sieving through reed beds in the Norfolk Broads. Church bells chiming out over the hustle and bustle of central ...
Environment
Jun 5, 2025
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The wildest trampoline in the world swings sideways and "around corners." Yet, no one can jump on it, because it's not even a millimeter tall. Physicists from the University of Konstanz, the University of Copenhagen, and ...
Nanophysics
Jun 5, 2025
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A research team from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved real-time atmospheric temperature measurements at altitudes of up to 5,200 meters using a new acoustic thermometer ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2025
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Researchers at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) and at Florida International University report in the journal Science their insights on the emerging field of complex frequency excitations, ...
Optics & Photonics
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