Sound is usually treated as the most familiar of physical phenomena, the background noise of daily life rather than a ...

It takes incredible skill and commitment to play a musical instrument, especially an instrument that requires a double reed like the oboe! Instruments rely on the vibrations of sound waves in order to ...

Someday our clothing may eavesdrop on the soundtrack of our lives, capturing the noises around and inside us. A new fiber acts as a microphone — picking up speech, rustling leaves and chirping birds — ...

Snakes may have no external ears but that doesn't mean they are deaf. Research from Queensland, Australia, has shown that snakes are able to respond to both airborne and ground-based sound vibrations.

One day, you may be able to turn up the volume with your jacket and tune out background noise with your pants. Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets ...

Monisha Ravisetti was a science writer at CNET. She covered climate change, space rockets, mathematical puzzles, dinosaur bones, black holes, supernovas, and sometimes, the drama of philosophical ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A different kind of design for absorbing vibrations could help better soundproof walls and make vehicles more streamlined, a new study shows. The study tested how well built-in ...

Young children are very curious about the sights and sounds in the world around them and interested in exploring them. Although they can’t touch, smell or taste light and sound, children can still ...

Learn how vibration creates sound and how sound becomes music. Join musicians Jake and Esther in IN TUNE: EVERYDAY MUSIC as they explore the science behind sound. Through fun demonstrations and ...

IT IS possible that the existence of the heart sounds was known to Hippocrates 1 and even that he made use of his knowledge for diagnostic purposes, but William Harvey 2 seems to have been the first ...