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 ...

You open the thick wooden door and step into a pool of liquid, primordial darkness — the sort impossible to experience in a city such as Mumbai with all its light pollution. It is so deep that you can ...

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Physics of Sound Harmonics and The Unified Theory Theoretical physicist Brian Greene, best known for his work on string theory, explains how music might have the answer we need to find a unified ...

A new theory suggests a natural basis for our preference for musical consonance. But does such a preference exist at all, wonders Philip Ball. What was avant-garde yesterday is often blandly ...