Everyone knows Thomas Edison invented the phonograph - but history got that story wrong. Nearly 20 years before Edison’s breakthrough, a French inventor named Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville had ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering ...

Sound is everywhere, but what if certain frequencies could actually change how your body feels? From vibrations that make you ...

How loud can sound really get? The human ear can safely hear up to around 120 decibels. Beyond that, it starts to hurt. At 150 decibels, eardrums can rupture. But history has witnessed sounds far ...

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the ...

“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on ...

We are scientists and engineers who are exploring ways to use heart sounds to detect disease earlier and more accurately. Our research suggests that combining stethoscopes with artificial intelligence ...

Melbourne: Language enables us to connect with each other and coordinate to achieve incredible feats. Our ability to communicate abstract concepts is often seen as a defining feature of our species, ...

High-speed sensors have revealed that pianists’ fingertips can shape sound color through precise movements. This long-sought proof turns artistic intuition into measurable science.

Andrew Ortmann’s long-running, collaborative Panicsville project has traversed countless confounding musical paths across ...

Learn how to detect AI in writing using one of these manual visual check methods that don't require any external tools.

Birds separated by vast geographic distances and millions of years of evolution share a remarkably similar learned vocal ...