Video cameras continue to gain widespread use, but there are privacy and environmental limitations in how well they work. Acoustical waves are an alternative medium that may bypass those limitations.

New research shows that the brain’s ability to detect subtle visual changes—like spotting an anomaly on a security ...

Waves of synchronized, coordinated neuronal activity have been observed and studied in the brain for over a century. But for ...

Imagine you are a security guard in one of those casino heist movies where your ability to recognize an emerging crime will depend on whether you notice a subtle change on one of the many security ...

Scientists have been able to use the power of sound to levitate small items — including insects and fish — for decades. But now researchers in Switzerland have figured out how to move objects around ...

Visual effects and sound voters are attracted to films that push the envelope of their crafts. But with no obvious, blow-you-away powerhouses like last year’s duo of “The Matrix” and “Star Wars: ...

Arlet Ramirez, 37, center, laughs as she walks toward the ocean for her first surfing lesson during the Visual Experience Foundation's 4th annual Surfing for Vision event in Long Branch. August 17, ...

UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...