The film explores the nature of sound waves, demonstrating how sound travels as a wave through air, which acts as a medium. It illustrates sound generation using a loudspeaker, examines oscillation, ...

Rice University physicists have shown for the first time that ultracold atoms can form bright “solitons,” localized bundles of waves that maintain a constant shape as they propagate. Solitons of light ...

Heat is not supposed to behave like this. In everyday life, warmth seeps and diffuses, spreading from hot to cold in a slow, smearing process that never looks anything like a crisp sound wave. Yet ...