More than 200 years ago, physicist Thomas Young amazed the scientific world when he showed that light behaves like both a ...

Ordinarily, light transmits the same in both directions: if I can see you, you can see me. Now, however, researchers have created a device that uses travelling sound waves to break this symmetry, ...

What are the loudest sounds at UB? Where are the university’s quietest spots? What unlikely noises here are around 60 decibels, the level typically associated with a normal conversation between two ...

An atom could be made to emit an optical signal that is usually associated with another type of atom, according to calculations done by Andre Campos, Denys Bondar, Herschel Rabitz and Renan Cabrera at ...

Scientists at the country's leading information and communications technology research institutes have been a big hit with children during Science Week as a result of a novel educational programme ...

The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE physics students who are studying sound waves, ultrasound and seismic waves. If you struggled with the quiz, don't panic - we've got you! You can ...