A new breakthrough from the Zhang Lab at Boston University is making waves in the world of sound control. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Led by Professor Xin Zhang ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stumbled onto what one called a “very radical” discovery — the new material they had created, akin to silk, could function much in the way a ...

There may be new hope for people with noisy neighbors. Scientists at MIT have developed a method of using thin sheets of fabric to either cancel or block sound – in the latter case, the racket even ...

Absorbing excess sound to make public environments like theaters and concert halls safer for hearing and using the unwanted sound waves to create electricity is the aim of a new paper. The authors ...