What makes a memorable travel experience? The sights, yes, but the sounds of a place are just as powerful. This art ...

Albuquerque writer Richard Vargas thinks about his iconic Summer Sound: the breaking of oceans waves. He lived in California once, and they represent the freedom he felt then. UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: ...

Scientists are developing a system that may help predict a tsunami by detecting sound waves that race through the deep ocean more than 10 times faster than the more destructive wave. "Severe sea ...

Tsunamis, also known as seismic sea waves, can be devastating. In 2004, a 100-foot wave in the Indian Ocean resulted in at least 230,000 deaths in one of the deadliest natural disasters in human ...

The top layer represents the location of the sound source and the path of sound propagation (A). The bottom layers represent convergence zones with different sound propagation paths (B-F). Sound waves ...

A tsunami’s immense wall of water may not be stoppable. But there may be a way to take the ferocious force of nature down a few notches, using a pair of counterwaves. If released at the right moment, ...

A record-shattering Pacific storm in 2024 unleashed waves so massive they were visible from space. In December 2024, a ...

If the sound of soothing ocean waves, thunderstorms, or birds chirping helps you fall asleep or wake up, then an alarm clock that can play natural noises is a sleep essential. But, there’s a ...

Composer Nina C. Young felt the tug of music from a young age, listening to church bells outside her home in New York. She wrote letters to Santa begging for a synthesizer and later balanced violin ...

For the first time in half a century, a new class of sound wave has been developed. Acoustics experts from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia are responsible for creating the wave, and it is set ...