The Economist (US), December 23rd, 1995
Sonoluminescence is the name scientists gave to the phenomenon of producing flashes of light in water with the help of sound waves. Increasingly complex experiments have been conducted during research of sonoluminescence, and new ones are being planned that call for the use of space flight.
SO MUCH of 20th-century physics is resolutely big science that it comes as a welcome surprise to learn that at least one unexplained phenomenon remains accessible for a few hundred dollars. In its "amateur scientist" column for February 1995 Scientific American told its readers how to produce little flashe...
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