The racket from some 70,000 pickleball courts across the United States has generated bitter fights. If we understand the ...

Our hearing picks up a limited range of sounds, limits that were used successfully to keep teenagers from congregating outside British grocery stores by a device called the “teenage sound repeller." ...

Acoustics expert explains why the sound of the vuvuzela is so hard on the ears. June 15, 2010— -- Love 'em or loathe 'em, the blaring plastic trumpets have become the hallmark of matches at the ...

For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a new ...