They’re a cool and easy way to demonstrate certain waves, with a bit of cleanup afterward. This week, we’re serving up some sound science on a “Chladni plate.” * Ernst Chladni was a very important ...

In the late 18 th century, German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni demonstrated how vibrations could be used to create striking imagery. By spreading fine sand across the top of a metal plate and ...

Meet Steven Turner, curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, as he discusses the Smithsonian's scientific instrument collection. This video focuses on the plate developed by ...

Sounding off: theoretical force patterns for an underwater Chladni plate at two different frequencies. The force arrows illustrate why glass beads accumulate at the plate antinodes (shown in yellow ...

Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Visual effects experts have produced a video that shows Kieza's number one hit Hideaway as you've never seen it before. Using Cymatics - the visual representation of sound - the team made sand, paint ...

Sometimes when the music is really good and the sound is really loud and the pill is really potent, you can see what you hear. But that’s just brain tricks. This, however, is real and mesmerizing.