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Voters Like Candidates With Lower Voices, Scientists Find

The difference isn't just about a candidate's gender, either.

Nightingales Who Sing Well Make the Best Fathers

Males who sing more complicated, orderly songs feed their children more often.

The Hidden Reference to The Beatles in Old Macs

One Apple engineer decided to let it beep.

Large Hadron Collider Technology Is Rescuing Historic Audio

Particle physicists Carl Haber and Vitaliy Fadeyev have discovered a way to use Large Hadron Collider technology to preserve historic audio.

5 Sounds You Probably Can't Hear

Think you have perfect hearing? There are still plenty of sounds in the world that you can’t detect.

9 Strange Sounds No One Can Explain

Was that mysterious "bloop" in the ocean made by a whale? Or by something much more mysterious? Investigators still don't know.

Why Do You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice?

When you speak, vibrations from your vocal cords resonate in your throat and mouth, and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and head. The inner ear responds to these just like any other vibrations, turning them into electrical sig

What Determines What Your Voice Sounds Like?

As a marker of singularity, our voices are as effective as our fingerprints. Though people may share a similar pitch or certain vocal characteristics, under close examination, no two voices are alike. Height, weight, hormones, provenance, allergies, struc

Why Do Shells Sound Like the Ocean?

Matt answers today's Big Question.