This new high-tech system puts out fires using sound waves. The revolutionary technology could help protect homes in high ...

Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Waves, the preeminent provider of adaptive audio technologies in consumer electronics and recipient of a Technical GRAMMY Award®, and Knowles Corporation (NYSE: KN), a ...

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Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.