sound

Godzilla isn't real and dinos are long gone, so styling their vocal performance can be a tricky task.

Before cell phones and walkie-talkies, curved walls were carrying messages from one end of a room to another.

It's not only aircraft that break the sound barrier.

When the car detects an impending crash, it emits an audio signal, causing your ear muscles to contract to protect your hearing.

It has to do with how the brain processes sound, and how that ability deteriorates as we grow older.

The only artificially created noise in this historic soundscape is of a water pump.

Crafty!

An audio engineer tells all.

Juan Pablo Culasso has turned his perfect pitch into a career in nature recording.

But not louder.

How much can social media tell us about street noise?

White noise is just one part of the auditory rainbow.

Small deep-water creatures are not so quiet when they travel.

Hearing is believing.

Test it for yourself.

When all you can hear is the sound of your own body, extreme quiet is less peaceful than you'd think.

Your ears aren't the only thing you have to worry about.

The future is here.

When Bruce Willis is too busy to re-record own breathing, they call in the professionals.

A new study finds that babies can distinguish between sounds better if they can move their tongue.

The ambient sounds of the National Parks of the Southwest is about to be your new favorite album.

It's not all hiss, rattle, and slither. Snakes can also growl, fart, and shriek.

Some researchers argue that being aggravated by mouth-related sounds can be a psychiatric disorder.

Imagine a bunch of crocodiles inhaling balloons! (That's not quite what happened, but we can dream.)