As an airplane flies faster than the speed of sound, it "pushes" on the sound waves in front of it. But sound waves obey the speed limit—they can't travel faster than the speed of sound. So the waves ...

In March 2021, Snopes readers asked about a video circulating on social media that showed a fighter jet blasting by an audience on a beach, along with commentary claiming the aircraft broke the sound ...

A research team at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has discovered a new type of sound wave: the airborne sound wave vibrates transversely and carries both rotation and orbital angular momentum ...

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Seventy years ago, a young pilot from West Virginia risked his life to punch through an invisible barrier in the sky. The flight that made aerospace history wasn't supposed to go quite the way it went ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Rockets are loud. With engines that can thunder at up to 200 decibels (that's 80 dB higher than ...

Shock wave studies allow researchers to achieve the warm dense matter that's found only in the extreme conditions around stars and created in the laboratory for inertial confinement fusion research, ...

Joining in on the slew of watch releases this weekend, G-SHOCK has now released four new models that come together to form its latest Skeleton Sound Wave series. Consisting of two GA-900SKL models and ...