NASA created a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. The black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, ...

When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them. But when we habitually ignore ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

We’re all used to crystal resonators — they provide pretty accurate frequency references for oscillators with low enough drift for most of our purposes. As the quartz equivalent of a tuning fork, they ...

Jeffrey Cooke does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Researchers have recorded the sounds of the world's largest tree, a 13-million-pound (6 million kilograms) behemoth known as Pando that stretches across 106 acres (43 hectares) in southern Utah. The ...

In 1997, NOAA scientists recorded a haunting, strange sound in the southern Pacific Ocean's depths. Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists ...

Vinyl is booming in the digital age. So why does the best way to listen feel just out of reach? Sept. 29 at 11:01 a.m. Tom Port is a 68-year-old man who spends his days in an office park outside Los ...