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

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 ...

The faith-based child-trafficking thriller Sound of Freedom has become one of the biggest, most unexpected box-office hits of the year. Released by upstart distributor, Angel Studios, the film has ...

Chris Impey receives funding from the National Science Foundation. Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

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 ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is bringing prompt-based editing to the world of sound with a new model called SAM Audio that can segment ...

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.

Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

The FishEye Collaborative combined underwater sound recordings with a 360° camera to identify the sounds made by individual ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A “sound bath” is a holistic wellness practice that involves immersing oneself ...

Sound therapy is an effective way to treat or minimize tinnitus symptoms. Evidence suggests that both customized and non-customized therapy may lend relief. If you experience tinnitus, you’re likely ...

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.