Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The ...

I direct a journalism program at a science-oriented university where my colleagues are modern-day alchemists, turning corn into fuel, conjuring twisters in wind tunnels, or morphing visitors at our ...

There is more going on with the sounds from a motorcycle and how it affects the human body than you might expect.Kevin Pak The roar of a wide-open throttle, the robust, throaty growl of a big V-twin, ...

High school science teacher Sam Terfa wanted to demonstrate a fundamental physics principle: resonant frequency. To do so, he found the best singer at Minnehaha Academy and had him serenade a wine ...

Despite what you may have heard elsewhere, science isn’t just reading [Neil deGrasse Tyson]’s Twitter account or an epistemology predicated on the non-existence of god. No, science requires much more ...

Live music rocks hardest in the open air, sonically speaking. Natural arenas like the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington—or the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles or Red Rocks in Colorado—give ...

Introduction Have you ever tried making “walkie-talkies” using a long piece of string and two tin cans? If you have, you know that they work surprisingly well—at longer distances you can hear people ...

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When Tom Hirko was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in May 2012, his oncologist immediately started treating him with a common chemotherapy called cisplatin. After the third round of treatment, ...

Reto Knutti receives funding for research projects from ETH Zurich, the Swiss National Science Foundation and EU H2020 programs. Kevin Trenberth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive ...

Summer is the season of sound in Chicago: from fireworks to car stereos, the jingle of paleta carts to outdoor concerts. But hearing a concert from over four miles away? That’s exactly what happened ...