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 ...

On the face of it, producing a set of noise cancelling headphones should be a relatively straightforward project. But as [Pete Lewis] found out, things are not always as they seem. The result is a ...

Disruptive noise is almost everywhere, from people talking in the office corridor to road construction down the street to the neighbor's lawn mower. Researchers are looking to improve this noisy ...

Forward-looking: Researchers at the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a microphone that doesn't detect air vibrations like traditional models. Instead, it captures light reflected from ...

Boston University’s customized ventilated Phase Gradient Ultra-Open Metamaterial (PGUOM) achieves broadband acoustic silencing while preserving airflow—reaching up to 70% openness. Photo courtesy of ...