Imagine a room where a band is playing. Neighbors can't hear the music, but if someone outside the room is talking, the musicians can hear it. The concept -- a kind of one-way mirror for sound -- ...

Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Researchers have found a way to do just that -- make sound flow ...

Scientists have created a one-way sound machine. The device, called an acoustic circulator, breaks the fundamental principle that sound, and other types of waves, are a two-way street. The findings, ...

Be it water, light or sound: waves usually propagate in the same way forwards as in the backward direction. As a consequence, when we are speaking to someone standing some distance away from us, that ...

In a recent study, Yale researchers developed a new technology that transmits sound in one direction. In partnership with speaker hire. Researchers in the Yale physics department were able to restrict ...

Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Yale researchers have found a way to do just that — make sound ...