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Abstract: Wireless cross-medium communication between underwater sensors and the outside world is a critical problem for marine exploitation. The sound-millimeter wave (mmWave)-based cross-medium ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Abstract: A globally constant sound speed of 1540 m/s is often assumed when beamforming ultrasound images, despite variations in tissue properties that lead to heterogeneous sound speeds. As a result, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With eyes closed and a small mallet in hand, the Rev. Kyohei Mikawa gently struck the bronze Himalayan ...

A wildfire burns in the hills of a Los Angeles suburb, leaping from one patch of dry brush to another as it approaches a cluster of homes. The landscaping at the first house burns, but the house ...

Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. The crowd roars when they walk across the ...

At the start of the extraordinary German drama “Sound of Falling,” a teen-ager, Erika (Lea Drinda), hobbles down a hall on one leg and a pair of crutches. It takes a second to realize that she has no ...

These quantum computer companies can help power the next generation of AI. The artificial intelligence (AI) market is hot, but a lot of computing power is needed to drive AI's evolution further. Here, ...

Dan Raby, the senior digital producer for CBS News Atlanta, has been covering everything happening around Georgia for more than a decade. Florida rapper Rod Wave was arrested on drug and weapon ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...