Underwater GPS system powered by sound could open up ocean exploration By David Szondy November 02, 2020 A sound-powered acoustic sensor sealed in plastic MIT/Reza Ghaffarivardavagh View 1 Images ...

In 1997, scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were recording the sounds of underwater volcanic activity when they picked up a noise that was so incredibly ...

Low frequency sound can travel almost unimpeded from water into air, claims a theoretical physicist in the US. The results are in stark contrast to the conventional view that the underwater world is ...

Scientists are developing a new technology for use in underwater acoustics. The new technology uses flashes of laser light to remotely create underwater sound. The new acoustic source has the ...

Don’t expect to play a game of Marco Polo by shouting from beneath the pool’s surface. No one will hear you because, normally, only about 0.1 percent of sound is transmitted from water to the air. But ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Australian researchers plan to ...

In 1997, hydrophones in the Pacific picked up a sound so loud it could be heard over 5,000 kilometers away. Known as “The Bloop,” this mysterious underwater noise remains one of the strangest and most ...

A mallet hovers over a bronze singing bowl, an instrument long used for meditation and relaxation practices. I drove up to my first sound bath experience not knowing quite what to expect. The ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's not the sound of a massive underwater earthquake, nor is it the sound of a pistol shrimp ...

A team led by Gabriel Blaj, a staff scientist at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, has generated what may be the loudest possible underwater sound. Using SLAC's Linac ...

Could underwater sound waves be the key to early tsunami warnings? Scientists develop new method to calculate a tsunami's size and destructive force by exploiting high-speed acoustic gravity waves ...