University of Toronto says the answer is yes, in fact sound travels faster when the air is hotter. At 25 C, the speed of sound is 1,246 kilometres per hour. On a cold day, when the temperature is ...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk have discovered the fastest possible speed of sound. The upper ...

Sound has a speed limit. Under normal circumstances, its waves can travel no faster than about 36 kilometers per second, physicists propose October 9 in Science Advances. Sound zips along at different ...

Scientists have created a new kind of quantum device that can turn electricity into something unusual: tiny packets of sound ...