If the jokes on NBC’s new fall sitcom “Coupling” sound familiar, it’s because they’ve been repeated word-for-word all summer on BBC America. English shows have inspired American TV hits since “All in ...

In recent years, there has been a lot of interest in coupling sound and light together. Admittedly, we’ve been doing this for a long time, but we’ve always been limited in terms of what we can do with ...

Yale scientists have uses acoustic waves to amplify light in a new type of silicon laser for photonic ICs, side-stepping the problem of silicon’s indirect bandgap. “Silicon’s intrinsic properties, ...

Acoustic frequency filters, which convert electrical signals into miniaturized sound waves, separate the different frequency bands for mobile communications, Wi-Fi, and GPS in smartphones. Physicists ...