A mother and child interact with a giant guitar exhibit inside a science museum, designed to demonstrate how sound is ...

Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

Horses, with their high-pitched whinnies, seemed to buck the trend of larger animals producing lower sounds, but a new study explains the mechanics behind the noises a horse makes. By Kate ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There was a time, not so long ago, when most of us were perfectly content with our 32-inch CRT screens and their tinny, built-in speakers.

Scientists recorded rig sharks producing sounds—potentially with their teeth. The clip is thought to be the first documentation of its kind. Paul Caiger / University of Auckland Scientists have long ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro Francis, 44, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Biology ...