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A Black woman wearing a yellow hard hat while inserting an orange foam ear plug into her ear.

It’s never too early to start protecting your hearing

By Jean Feingold

a giant hornet crawls on a box

These honeybees have a surprisingly fierce battle cry

By Kate Baggaley

person playing violin

You might like Stradivarius violins because worms hate them

By Philip Kiefer

Blue sine waves on a black background. Sine waves, like these, are a way to envision how sound works.

How do sound waves work?

By Brian S. Hawkins

Green hummingbird hovering in the air

This is the most soothing sound in the world

By Purbita Saha

band-playing-for-elephants

Can music help animals relax?

By Bill Gourgey

A person sitting on a bed, enjoying playing a keyboard that's hooked up to a laptop.

5 tech tricks for learning a musical instrument

By Gina Wisener

How bomb detectors discovered a hidden pod of singing blue whales

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How bomb detectors discovered a hidden pod of singing blue whales

A Brown hen sits on a nest of straw and one brown egg in a particle board compartment. A white egg sits nearby.

Even from inside their shells and wombs, embryos are listening

By Lauren Leffer

A tangle of macaque monkeys.

Laughter is a key part of play for many animals

Person with long black hair and in silver sequin hat at microphone

Why your voice sounds weird on recordings

By Neel Bhatt/The Conversation

Treefrogs have noise-cancelling headphones built into their ears

What underwater sounds can tell us about the state of coral reefs

By Ellie Shechet

Why ASMR calms some people down and sends others into a rage

By Eleanor Cummins

Person with short black hair with sound-cancelling headphones and a backpack on a light purple and sea green background

Do binaural beats benefit your brain?

By Sara Kiley Watson

an astronaut stands next to an american flag on the moon

Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did.

By Popular Science Team

a drone hovers next to a lake and a tree

Delivery drones could drive us batty—unless they take some sonic cues from owls

By Popular Science Team

We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs

By Kate Baggaley

An empty Fenway Stadium

Leagues scramble to replace the roar of the crowd as pro sports return

By Purbita Saha

Microsoft noise suppression

AI is here to mask barking dogs and screaming kids from your video calls

By Stan Horaczek

a person holding a TV remote and using their TV

Eighteen digital freebies and extended trials you can take advantage of right now

Worker sitting at Mac laptop with wireless headphones on

Listening to music helps you work, sometimes

By Manuel F. Gonzalez & John R. Aiello/The Conversation

a cattle skull mounted on wood

Five surprising ways people have used (and are still using) bones

By John Kennedy

Natalie Andrewson illustration

This sound illusion puts the scary in scary movies

By Sara Chodosh

Dissecting a lightning strike, from flash to boom

Totto Renna illustration

Ranked: the loudest sounds ever measured

By Jessica Boddy

It’s not just you: Restaurants have gotten too loud. But there are some fixes.

By Chris Berdik

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Seven mysterious sounds science has yet to solve

By Erin Blakemore

sound in space illustration

What your voice would sound like on other planets and moons

By Sara Chodosh

Niv Bavarsky illustration

This is why you mishear popular song lyrics

By Sara Kiley Watson

Hidden hearing loss is hitting people of all ages. Neuroscientists are still debating why.

By Sarah Scoles

This frog’s signature chirp can be heavenly or hellish

By Eleanor Cummins

The Sims language

The Sims’ language has surprisingly scientific origins

By Marion Renault

Inside the extraordinary experiment to save the Stradivarius sound

By Chuck Squatriglia

Phonautograph and Wax Cylinder recorders

Humans have been recording sound since before they could play it back

By Eleanor Cummins

Natalie Andrewson illustration

I built a room so quiet you can hear your own blood

By Eleanor Cummins

a woman with her eyes closed listening to something with headphones

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Listen to this shiver-inducing introduction to the science of ASMR

By Popular Science Team

a man hypnotizing a woman

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

Ben Franklin invented a mesmerizing instrument with a deadly reputation

By Popular Science Team

Meet the man who restores old music to its original glory

By Stan Horaczek

Jacques Kleynhans illustration

Why you’re powerless to ignore a crying baby

By Sara Chodosh

Sorry, even Mariah Carey can’t twist bottle caps off with her voice

Sorry, even Mariah Carey can’t twist bottle caps off with her voice

By Eleanor Cummins

The weirdest things we learned this week: doctors drinking pee and telephones made of cats

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The weirdest things we learned this week: doctors drinking pee and telephones made of cats

By Popular Science Team

How to make an open office more quiet

How to make an open office more quiet

Listen to a haunting song composed using climate data

Listen to a haunting song composed using climate data

By Alex Schwartz

InSight's solar panel sits in front of a Martian landscape

Listen to the very first sounds recorded on Mars

By Charlie Wood

Naturally 7 at the Bell Ice Cube in Vancouver BC– Stock Editorial Photography

Watch people beatbox in an MRI

By Charlie Wood

an illustration of a man pretending to read someone's mind in front of a crowd

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

The spookiest things we learned this week

By Rachel Feltman

Rolls Royce built a silent isolation chamber in its Phantom luxury car

Rolls Royce built a silent isolation chamber in its Phantom luxury car

By Jordan Golson

Pennsylvania’s 9/11 memorial is one of the first in the world to use sound as a tribute

Pennsylvania’s 9/11 memorial is one of the first in the world to use sound as a tribute

By Eleanor Cummins

walter rothschild zebra carriage

The weirdest things we learned this week: bone flutes, zebra carriages, and laughing gas parties

By Rachel Feltman

hand touching sound board

Why our devices make the sounds they make

By Eleanor Cummins

Artificial intelligence can take your bad whistling and make it sound like Mozart

Artificial intelligence can take your bad whistling and make it sound like Mozart

Laurel or Yanny?

Yanny vs. Laurel is ‘The Dress of 2018’—but these sound experts think they can end the debate right now

By Sara Chodosh

The physics behind a baseball bat’s sweet spot

By Sara Chodosh

a woman at a switchboard listening

Earth’s most mysterious hums, ranked

By Rachel Feltman

We’re scientists who turn hurricanes into music

We’re scientists who turn hurricanes into music

By Mark Ballora and Jenni Evans/The Conversation

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot

Bats’ echolocation has one major blind spot

By Mary Beth Griggs

Cockatoos make their own lil drumsticks to play music

Cockatoos make their own lil drumsticks to play music

By Sara Kiley Watson

TaylorMade Driver Sound

Tuning a golf club’s signature ‘thwack’ sound costs millions

By Stan Horaczek

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises

Humans are infecting wild lands with our noises

By Kendra Pierre-Louis

DIY Sonic Tractor Beam

Now you can 3D print your own sonic tractor beam

By Sophie Bushwick

Egyptian Fruit Bats

Now we know what an angry, hungry bat sounds like

By Mary Beth Griggs

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.

By Kate Baggaley

How The Noise Of Big Rockets Breaks Apart Buildings

How The Noise Of Big Rockets Breaks Apart Buildings

By Amy Shira Teitel