A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic ...

A Vermont research team has cracked a 90-year-old puzzle, creating a quantum version of the damped harmonic oscillator. By reformulating Lamb’s classical model, they showed how atomic vibrations can ...

The hashtag makes clear that this was a reference to the show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which isn't something I watch regularly. It seems that in last week's episode, a particular magic sound ...

This large-scale, video installation was created by a custom set of software programmed by the artist to explore the “abyssal plains, organic patterns, and generative forms that emerge from digital ...