Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate them with round objects. There have been plenty of ...

Think your sound machine is helping you sleep? It might be doing the opposite. A new study from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine found that listening to pink noise at bedtime ...

The new model, called VSSFlow, leverages a creative architecture to generate sounds and speech with a single unified system, with state-of-the-art results. Watch (and hear) some demos below. Currently ...

Sound machines may not be the sleep saviors many believe. Researchers found that pink noise significantly reduced REM sleep, while simple earplugs did a better job protecting deep, restorative sleep ...

For many people struggling to fall or stay asleep, sound machines have become a popular sleep aid. Broadband sounds promise to mask disturbing noises, “soothe” the brain, and help users drift off into ...

Erin Pettit and researchers at Oregon State University were set to find out. They’ve been studying melting glaciers by dropping hydrophones — specialized underwater microphones — into the water near ...

It's common for people to play continuous wave sounds and other gentle nature noises on their phones to lull themselves to sleep. But this type of "pink noise" may actually be backfiring, a new Penn ...

After a hiatus from the Magic City, Sofar Sounds is making its Miami comeback. The internationally loved concert series, famous for turning rooftops, living rooms, and hidden venues into intimate ...

There is generations’ worth of wisdom about what to eat when one is convalescing — and something faintly romantic about the ritual of it, spoon by spoon nourishing yourself back from the brink, until ...

Darienne Lancaster has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada Competitive Science Research Fund (CSRF). She is ...

In 1996, in an episode called “Messages from Earth,” part of the beloved sci-fi TV series Babylon 5, Captain John Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) confesses to his Minbari colleague Delenn (the late, great ...

In this post, we will show you how to enable or disable Spatial Sound in Windows 11. Spatial Sound is an advanced audio feature that creates an immersive, 3D sound experience, without requiring ...