Those tall walls along the side of the highway aren't there to prevent cars from crashing into your backyard. Here's what ...

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation will close the I-95 Exit 7 southbound on-ramp in Portsmouth overnight Dec. 14 for construction work. Nighttime work will occur between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., ...

The X-1’s fuselage was designed to resemble a .50 caliber bullet—one of the only shapes known to have stable flight at supersonic speeds. The Bell X-1 hangs today from the ceiling of the National Air ...

The "quiet" supersonic aircraft developed by NASA and Lockheed Martin has completed its first flight in California. Dubbed the X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology Aircraft, or Quesst, it is a sleek ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The 1960s were a formative time for the recording of music, popular and otherwise. The arrival of multitrack ...

When legendary pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier and flew the Bell X-1 past Mach 1 in 1947, it was the greatest aviation milestone ever achieved at that time. These days, however, reaching ...

Ko-Solar, a U.S.-based solar technologies, and R. Kohlhauer, a German noise barrier systems specialist, announced plans to offer turnkey PV-integrated wall and sound barrier systems for transportation ...

If you live near a busy street, this new breakthrough from Switzerland could offer some long-awaited relief. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) ...

In recent years, the continuous increase in the speed of high-speed trains has led to growing concern about noise generated by train operations. Currently, three types of sound barriers are commonly ...

The sound barrier is something many people have heard of, but few understand, as it's somewhat of a misnomer. The speed of sound is known as Mach 1 (767 mph), and when an object moves beyond this, ...