sound

Is your body perfectly toned? Are your workdays marathons of effortless achievement? Do your relationships proceed…

The impact of covid-19 lockdowns on wildlife living on land has been clear, but emerging research shows the quiet…

If you get carried away with setting up helpful reminders, eventually you’ll get tired of your smart speaker’s…

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A system that can distinguish phonons, the smallest units of sound, marks an important milestone in the development…

In late 2016, U.S. and Canadian diplomats at their embassy in Havana, Cuba began coming down with unexplained…

If you’ve ever watched a science-fiction movie, you might think you know what lasers sound like: some variation of a…

Before meeting its end in a planet-circling dust storm, the Opportunity rover traversed nearly 30 miles over the…

The most effective way to block an annoying sound is to simply build a barrier—the thicker, the better. But instead…

The human tolerance for sound is, on a galactic level, puny. Volcano eruptions, jackhammer-intensive construction…

This week, a Nasdaq Nordic stock exchange data center in Finland was taken down by its fire suppression system. But…

The Last Jedi takes aim at some of the most deeply-held establishments and tenets of the Star Wars saga, laying the…

On Monday, a team of scientists in Australia announced an exciting breakthrough: For the first time, researchers…

Google has surveyed the advertising landscape that it dominates and determined that it’s time for a change.…

Ever notice how Christopher Nolan’s movies (Interstellar, Inception, The Prestige) feel like an anxiety attack?…

There’s an old mantra in the security world that anything can be hacked. And the more complex our devices become,…

Vworp. Kapow. Biff, bang, pow! The onomatopoeic words we’ve seen splayed out across comic pages over the years are…

We’ve all been there: building a scale model of the Death Star in our basement and thinking, “I just wish this had a…

When the first trailer for The Mummy dropped a few weeks ago, it was, like most action movie trailers, a cacophony…

You no longer have to be a Stradivarius, a Gibson, or even a Steinway to make your own musical instruments. Anyone…