University of Vermont professor Dennis Clougherty (right) and his student Nam Dinh wondered if there are systems in the atomic scale that behave like the vibrating motion of a guitar string in the ...

The hashtag makes clear that this was a reference to the show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which isn't something I watch regularly. It seems that in last week's episode, a particular magic sound ...

When a guitar string is plucked or a playground swing is set in motion, the movement gradually fades away. Physicists call these “damped harmonic oscillators,” and Newton’s laws do a fine job of ...