LOS ANGELES (AP) — With eyes closed and a small mallet in hand, the Rev. Kyohei Mikawa gently struck the bronze Himalayan ...

Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

Have you ever stepped outside on a frigid, quiet morning and heard sounds emanating from somewhere far away? It's not your ...

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Yushun Zeng squishes cancer cells in a petri dish at work. No, not with his ungainly, macroscopic human fingers. Zeng, an engineering graduate student at the University of Southern California, has ...

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A glacier’s edge can be a dangerous place to do research. This team is using robots and sound samples to monitor the melting ice.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disturbed’s “Sound of Silence” has been experiencing something of a ...

Getting a good night’s sleep is hard. A third of all American adults report getting less than the daily recommended amount of sleep nearly every night. Too little noise, and the mind starts to race.