A small Derbyshire town is being plagued by a mystery high-pitched noise so loud a council has been called in to investigate. The noise can be heard around the clock and some think it might be ...

A loud sound has a large amplitude, a high pitched sound has a high frequency. Musicians and scientists record and analyse sounds using wave traces. Sometimes you can see the source of the sound ...

A singing balloon experiment is a great way to learn how sound works. If you put a small coin inside a balloon and spin it, ...

In this animated video essay, "Sunday Morning" contributor Robert Krulwich and animator Nate Milton go inside one of Nature's mysteries, to examine why an adult male elk, weighing around half a ton, ...

“High-pitched voices are universally associated ... Her research focuses on the effects of sound on the human mind and body, analyzed through the frameworks of cognitive and auditory psychology.

In a nutshell • Scientists discovered that Heschl’s gyrus, not just the superior temporal gyrus as previously thought, plays ...

This high-frequency sound is best heard at the apex. Tumor plop: A tumor plop is an early diastolic low-pitched sound just after the S2 heart sound. This is in contrast to the opening snap of ...

For instance, a woman’s high-pitched voice is lowered in tone to sound less resonant. A man’s bass tone, which may be frightening, is raised to a higher pitch to sound softer. However ...