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It's not only aircraft that break the sound barrier.

When the car detects an impending crash, it emits an audio signal, causing your ear muscles to contract to protect your hearing.

It has to do with how the brain processes sound, and how that ability deteriorates as we grow older.

The only artificially created noise in this historic soundscape is of a water pump.

Crafty!

An audio engineer tells all.

Juan Pablo Culasso has turned his perfect pitch into a career in nature recording.

White noise is just one part of the auditory rainbow.

Hearing is believing.

Test it for yourself.

When all you can hear is the sound of your own body, extreme quiet is less peaceful than you'd think.

Your ears aren't the only thing you have to worry about.

When Bruce Willis is too busy to re-record own breathing, they call in the professionals.

A new study finds that babies can distinguish between sounds better if they can move their tongue.

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The ambient sounds of the National Parks of the Southwest is about to be your new favorite album.

It's not all hiss, rattle, and slither. Snakes can also growl, fart, and shriek.

Some researchers argue that being aggravated by mouth-related sounds can be a psychiatric disorder.

Imagine a bunch of crocodiles inhaling balloons! (That's not quite what happened, but we can dream.)

Think you have perfect hearing? There are still plenty of sounds in the world that you can’t detect.

Was that mysterious "bloop" in the ocean made by a whale? Or by something much more mysterious? Investigators still don't know.

When you speak, vibrations from your vocal cords resonate in your throat and mouth, and some get transmitted and conducted by the bones in your neck and head. The inner ear responds to these just like any other vibrations, turning them into electrical sig

As a marker of singularity, our voices are as effective as our fingerprints. Though people may share a similar pitch or certain vocal characteristics, under close examination, no two voices are alike. Height, weight, hormones, provenance, allergies, struc

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Why Do You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice?

What Determines What Your Voice Sounds Like?