Not everything needs to be seen to be believed; certain things are more readily heard, like a train approaching its station. In a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have ...

In a recent article published in Nature, researchers investigated the early maturation of sound duration processing, a crucial auditory temporal feature. Study: Early maturation of sound duration ...

A BOOK OF NOISES: Notes on the Auraculous. By Caspar Henderson. University of Chicago Press. 272 pages. $24. In electronic communications parlance, Caspar Henderson’s signal-to-noise ratio is ...

A team of UConn College of Engineering (CoE) researchers have achieved a major milestone in the field of phononics with the first experimental demonstration of an all-flat phononic band structure (AFB ...

Scientists say they have the first direct evidence that seeds can sense the sound of rain, and will sprout faster when they do.

Very low-frequency sounds, which humans cannot hear but can lead to high stress hormone levels in the body, could be an explanation for “haunted” locations, a new study finds. Such sounds below 20 ...

Imagine rain as an orchestra, playing the perfect symphony for seeds. An MIT study reveals that rice seeds, when exposed to vibrations akin to rainfall, sprout up to 40% faster, essentially 'listening ...