Readers, consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called "audible enclaves," where only ...

The clever bit here is that each individual wave is inaudible on its own, so nobody hears anything unless they're at the ...

New audio tech uses ultrasound to create isolated pockets of sound, enabling private listening without headphones.

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or ...

Directing sound to a specific location is difficult because of how sound waves behave. As vibrations move through the air, ...

In the depths of your inner ear lies one of biology’s most intricate sound systems. A new discovery reveals that the cochlea ...

Imagine a world where sound becomes visible. In a room full of conversation, we would see soundwaves flowing from person to ...

The researchers believe that these ‘whispering beams’ could be used to transmit personalized messages in public spaces, such ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, ...

Hearing begins when sound waves pass through the outer ear to the eardrum, which is the thin membrane between your outer and middle ear. When the sound waves reach the eardrum, the eardrum vibrates.