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

It’s never too early to start protecting your hearing

By Jean Feingold

a giant hornet crawls on a box
Environment

These honeybees have a surprisingly fierce battle cry

By Kate Baggaley

person playing violin
Science

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.
Science

How do sound waves work?

By Brian S. Hawkins

Green hummingbird hovering in the air
Health

This is the most soothing sound in the world

By Purbita Saha

Studio C at Blackbird Studios in Nashville
Gear

How to soundproof a room

By Sarah Jones

band-playing-for-elephants
Environment

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.
DIY

5 tech tricks for learning a musical instrument

By Gina Wisener

How bomb detectors discovered a hidden pod of singing blue whales
Environment

How bomb detectors discovered a hidden pod of singing blue whales

By Grace Wade

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

Even from inside their shells and wombs, embryos are listening

By Lauren Leffer

A tangle of macaque monkeys.
Environment

Laughter is a key part of play for many animals

By Hannah Seo

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

Why your voice sounds weird on recordings

By Neel Bhatt/The Conversation

treefrog
Environment

Treefrogs have noise-cancelling headphones built into their ears

By Rahul Rao

a coral reef
Science

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

By Ellie Shechet

A captive spotted eagle ray feeding on mollusks in a tank
Environment

Listen to the soothing sounds of a snacking stingray

By Purbita Saha

ASMR
Health

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
Health

Do binaural beats benefit your brain?

By Sara Kiley Watson

Simple solutions to soundproof your apartment
Gear

Simple solutions to soundproof your apartment

By PopSci Commerce Team

an astronaut stands next to an american flag on the moon
Science

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
Technology

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

By Popular Science Team

blue whale
Environment

We can protect whales from ship strikes by translating their songs

By Kate Baggaley

Sounds can play tricks on you—can you decipher the truth?
DIY

Decipher mysterious sounds with this matching game

By Jessica Boddy

An empty Fenway Stadium
Health

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

By Purbita Saha

Microsoft noise suppression
Technology

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
Health

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

By David Nield

Worker sitting at Mac laptop with wireless headphones on
Health

Listening to music helps you work, sometimes

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

a cattle skull mounted on wood
Science

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

By John Kennedy

Natalie Andrewson illustration
Health

This sound illusion puts the scary in scary movies

By Sara Chodosh

lightning
Environment

Dissecting a lightning strike, from flash to boom

By Rob Verger

Totto Renna illustration
Science

Ranked: the loudest sounds ever measured

By Jessica Boddy

dinner table
Technology

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

By Chris Berdik

joan wong illustration
Science

Seven mysterious sounds science has yet to solve

By Erin Blakemore

sound in space illustration
Science

What your voice would sound like on other planets and moons

By Sara Chodosh

Niv Bavarsky illustration
Science

This is why you mishear popular song lyrics

By Sara Kiley Watson

Hearing loss
Health

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

By Sarah Scoles

Coqui frogs
Environment

This frog’s signature chirp can be heavenly or hellish

By Eleanor Cummins

The Sims language
Gear

The Sims’ language has surprisingly scientific origins

By Marion Renault

violin
Technology

Inside the extraordinary experiment to save the Stradivarius sound

By Chuck Squatriglia

Phonautograph and Wax Cylinder recorders
Technology

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

By Eleanor Cummins

Animal calls
Gear

Four whistles and instruments you can use to call wildlife

By John Kennedy

Natalie Andrewson illustration
Health

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
Science

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

By Popular Science Team

a man hypnotizing a woman
Science

Ben Franklin invented a mesmerizing instrument with a deadly reputation

By Popular Science Team

Pete Hutchison
Technology

Meet the man who restores old music to its original glory

By Stan Horaczek

Jacques Kleynhans illustration
Health

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
Science

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
Science

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
DIY

How to make an open office more quiet

By Dan Seitz

Listen to a haunting song composed using climate data
Environment

Listen to a haunting song composed using climate data

By Alex Schwartz

Super Super Bowl gear to enjoy all year round
Gear

Game day gadgets you’ll be happy to have all year round

By Billy Cadden

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

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
Science

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
Science

The spookiest things we learned this week

By Rachel Feltman

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

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
Technology

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
Science

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

By Rachel Feltman

hand touching sound board
Technology

Why our devices make the sounds they make

By Eleanor Cummins

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

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

By Rob Verger

an enema kit with a bellows
Science

The weirdest things we learned this week: smoke enemas, sneaky sound design, and stranded lighthouses

By Rachel Feltman

Laurel or Yanny?
Science

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

By Sara Chodosh

Charcoal Companion Cast Iron Garlic Roaster & Squeezer Set
Gear

Five rad and random products I found this week

By Billy Cadden

Anker’s smart home brand is crowdfunding a new security system
Gear

Anker’s smart home brand is crowdfunding a new security system

By Billy Cadden

Five rad and random items for a fun night in
Gear

Five rad and random items for a fun night in

By Billy Cadden

baseball bat
Science

The physics behind a baseball bat’s sweet spot

By Sara Chodosh