In 1947, Chuck Yeager flew the X-1, an experimental rocket plane, over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California and broke the sound barrier for the first time. To pull it off, he had to fly his plane at ...

You probably know that vehicles that can operate solely under electric power have a low-speed warning sound that it projects to let pedestrians – particularly blind or vision-impaired pedestrians – ...

When we talk about the speed of sound, we usually mean how fast it moves through air. But it can travel much faster through other media, and now scientists at the University of Cambridge and Queen ...

The government received a number of comments both for and against driver-selectable low-speed EV sounds. Vehicles capable of operating silently are required by law to emit sounds at speeds up to 19 ...

Forty years ago, the Concorde broke the sound barrier for first time. Oct. 1, 2009— -- Bullets. Artillery. Horse whips. For a time, they all could do something humans only dreamed of: travel ...

Sound in the ocean does not behave like sound in the air. This is also what makes sound in the ocean so awesome. Sound in water is like the cool funky uncle of the sound family. It travels ...

Sprinters in the position farthest from the pistols were getting slower start times, so organizers switched to an electronic tone. When the Olympic runners take to their positions on the track later ...

On TikTok, one of the latest music trends is speeding up popular songs. And now, fans are demanding that artists comply with their expectations for speedy sounds. In one recent controversy, ...

Researchers have measured the speed of sound in pure iron under pressures similar to those that exist at the Earth’s inner core boundary. The result suggests that this region of the core may be ...

He’s definitely not wrong; At double speed, “Somebody Else” would clock in at just under three minutes and frankly wouldn’t feel terribly out of place on Chvrches’ 2015 album Every Open Eye. This ...

We've already counted down Exclaim!'s top songs and albums of 2023, and just about everyone and everything else, including TikTok, is doing the same. This year, the app's Top 10 sounds included some ...