With a name like “microphone,” you’d expect something small—but perhaps not quite as small as this. Scientist have figured out how to use just one molecule to detect the vibrations from sound.

Broadcast sound is crafted from a variety of microphones so that the final/composite sound field replicates what your ears really hear and the information your brain processes as the sound environment ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have created a new generation of fibres that, they claim, can both detect and produce sound. The fibres, which contain a ...