A group of international researchers have developed a way to use sound to generate different types of wave patterns on the ...

Naval sonar systems work like acoustic floodlights, sending sound waves through ocean waters for tens or even hundreds of miles to disclose large objects in their path. But this activity entails ...

To Fish, it was clear that ocean creatures were far noisier than anyone had guessed. Sound waves travel through water efficiently—five times faster than through air—but, as Fish hastened to ...

Can you sound out the truth behind how sound sounds underwater? Take this quiz and find out. The speed of sound in water is two times slower than that in air.

Ocean waves have long been seen as having huge potential as a source of renewable energy. Waves produce an estimated 50 ...

those on the ocean’s surface, and those that reside underwater. My research group has just published a paper demonstrating how underwater sound waves can be used to make surface waves more ...