Lower doctor bills. Drinking water. Protection from floods. Food. Those are just a few items on a newly compiled list of goods and services provided to people living around Puget Sound by the "natural ...

Non-invasive, no-anesthesia lithotripsy recently gained FDA approval ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...