Commentary: Beneath the threshold of human perception lies an invisible ocean of sound — and scientists are just beginning to ...

Infrasound may be used to detect the approach of hazardous volcanic mudflows, known as lahars, tens of minutes before their flow fronts arrive. We have analyzed signals from more than 20 secondary ...

The science of acoustic fire suppression, which has long been known and documented in scientific literature and the press, works by vibrating oxygen molecules away from a fuel source, depriving the ...

A new study finds that inaudible sound waves called infrasound may cause people to experience a creepy, haunted feeling. Research subjects exposed to infrasound had higher levels of the stress hormone ...

The next time you walk into a purportedly “haunted” house and sense a ghostly presence, consider that those feelings might be due to vibrating pipes, mechanical or climate control systems, rumbling ...

How seabirds navigate across thousands of miles of seemingly featureless ocean is one of nature's mysteries. It is known that seabirds use a range of cues including sight and smell to direct their ...

A new study by the University of Liverpool provides the first evidence that wandering albatrosses, one of the widest-ranging seabirds, may use infrasound to help them navigate long and featureless ...

When North Korea conducted its third nuclear explosion on February 12, the global nuclear police, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, detected it immediately and soon afterward released ...

On Tuesday, June 16, Asheville's PEDE committee voted to move a proposed one-year data center moratorium to the full city ...

Most of us take for granted that what we can hear represents the full acoustic world. It doesn’t. Beneath the threshold of ...

Most of us take for granted that what we can hear represents the full acoustic world around us. It doesn’t. Beneath the ...