There's a sensation that you experience -- near a plane taking off or a speaker bank at a concert -- from a sound so total that you feel it in your very being. When this happens, not only do your ...

In this film, David discovers the significance of sound in his life while watching television. He learns that sound is produced by vibrations and explores how different sounds vary in pitch, loudness, ...

Reporting in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, researchers were surprised to find that different frequencies of sound produced different patterns in a color-changing liquid. Studying reactions like ...

Ask ten audiophiles what defines great sound, and you’ll probably get ten different answers. That said, Chief Audioholic Gene DellaSala recently made a video exploring the characteristics that he ...

The night after my favorite director died, I was upstairs watching YouTube clips of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” David Lynch’s ...

After finishing Ben Shattuck’s masterful new book of short stories, “The History of Sound” I did something I hadn’t done for more than two decades, I started reading it over again from the beginning.

A tiny, levitated bead is at the core of an unprecedentedly bright laser that shoots particles of sound instead of light. Just as a ray of light is made up of many particles called photons, sound ...

An MLive reader has a question about why the thunder earlier this week was so loud and lasted a long time. There are two valid reasons. Elizabeth emailed me asking, “A couple days ago the storms we ...