It’s a natural human tendency to see patterns and forms in abstract landscapes–we think clouds look like animals and draw constellations in random smatterings of stars. In her series “Sound Form Wave, ...

Researchers can move microscopic particles and droplets into precise patterns by harnessing the power of sound in air. The implications for printing, especially in the fields of medicine and ...

Mathematicians and engineers have teamed up to show how ultrasound waves can organize carbon particles in water into a sort of pattern that never repeats. The results, they say, could result in ...

Nick and Sally copy a sound pattern of buzzes and bells, to unlock a door. When a locked door plays a series of sounds, Nick and Sally try to repeat the sounds, to get the door to unlock. It works!