Determining the "loudest recorded sound" depends on how you define sound and on which measurements you choose to include.

The National Park System’s breathtaking landscapes and cultural and historic sites serve as living laboratories for science and discovery that help safeguard our nation’s legacy. Yet today, ...

The latter arises because we have come to a point in history when there is a parting of the ways between tied-in human ...

Introduction Have you ever tried making “walkie-talkies” using a long piece of string and two tin cans? If you have, you know that they work surprisingly well—at longer distances you can hear people ...

When George W. Bush and members of his administration talk about environmental policy, the phrase "sound science" rarely goes unuttered. On issues ranging from climate change to the storage of nuclear ...

There’s nothing I love more than seeing my family healthy and happy. We all want our children and grandchildren to live healthy and full lives. And farm families like mine know that healthy meals ...

British science writer Maurice Goldsmith argues that science critics are urgently needed to bring society to a new level of sophistication about science. Given the challenges of modern times, ...

Young children are very curious about the sights and sounds in the world around them and interested in exploring them. Although they can’t touch, smell or taste light and sound, children can still ...

What do atoms sound like? Whatever you want them to, it turns out. Scientists have shown that sound waves can be used to interact with an individual atom and make it produce sound in response — on a ...

Some spiders wait for prey to come and tickle their web. But the ogre-faced spider (Deinopis spinosa) uses its sense of hearing to take its web to the prey. Hanging upside down, the spider weaves a ...

When Tom Hirko was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in May 2012, his oncologist immediately started treating him with a common chemotherapy called cisplatin. After the third round of treatment, ...

Grace Leslie stands in front of a crowd, a flute perched at her lips. In many ways, the ingredients of this performance are nothing extraordinary: performer, audience, instrument … other than, perhaps ...