In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

In a study published Nov. 26 in Nature, Baptiste Chide, a postdoctoral fellow in planetary acoustics at Los Alamos National ...

Scientists can measure the rate at which glaciers melt by making underwater audio recordings of them shifting and calving, then reducing those sounds to predictive formulas. But what if, in addition ...

Using sound to get objects to float works well if a single particle is levitated, but it causes multiple particles to ...

Do re mi, X-ray, MRI. Are molecules musical as well as scientific? WonderLab says yes. What do molecules sound like? Although others have done molecule-sound work, college undergrad Walker Smith is ...

Grace Leslie’s work with ATLAS’ Brain Music Lab transforms brain activity into sound, blending art, technology and neuroscience Grace Leslie stands in front of a crowd, a flute perched at her lips. In ...

At minus decibels, visitors have reported being able to hear the blood pumping through their veins and arteries.

Join us for the December 2025 installment of the “Science on the Sound” Lecture Series at the Coastal Studies Institute on the ECU Outer Banks Campus.

The noise level of cicadas in our area has been deafening at times, particularly during warm, sunny afternoons. The bugs have reached 90 decibels in places; it’s like standing next to a food blender ...

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, ...