This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today we’re going to do something completely different: We’re going to offer you a break in the pandemic and politics by taking you ...

Summer is the season of sound in Chicago: from fireworks to car stereos, the jingle of paleta carts to outdoor concerts. But hearing a concert from over four miles away? That’s exactly what happened ...

Sound waves traveling thousands of kilometers through the ocean may help scientists monitor climate change. As greenhouse gas emissions warm the planet, the ocean is absorbing vast amounts of that ...

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 ...

Today's guest post is presented courtesy of Lauren Freeman, an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Lab. She studies how humans impact ocean habitats including coral reefs and coastal ...

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In 1986, when he was a mere prince, King Charles, Britain’s eco-minded monarch, told a television interviewer that it was important to talk to one’s plants. He was widely mocked. But that piece of ...

Check one, two; check one, two; is this thing on? Over on The Public Domain Review [Lucas Thompson] takes us for a spin through sound, as it was in Britain around and through the 1800s. The article ...