Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as enthralled with the wonders of the universe as she is. When she's not daydreaming about flying through space, she's daydreaming ...

Sometimes when the music is really good and the sound is really loud and the pill is really potent, you can see what you hear. But that’s just brain tricks. This, however, is real and mesmerizing.

Using just a tone generator, a speaker, and a metal plate, YouTube artist Brusspup shows us how certain frequencies can vibrate sand into wildly intricate patterns. The patterns increase in complexity ...