Soon your MP3 files could be sounding even better. The Fraunhofer Institute has found a way to reproduce surround sound in a way that works with small MP3 files. Using a small amount of additional ...

To Scandinavia’s Sami people, the Northern Lights inspire fear and respect. Children should never tease the lights, elders have said, lest the aurora swoop down and carry them into the skies. Inuit ...

Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps, a discovery that shows how even simple acts can be rich with physics. The key to generating sound from ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Fans of Wicked certainly felt a stirring when the film finally got to the musical's best-known song, Defying Gravity, but they probably didn't notice ...

There’s no limit to the promise of artificial intelligence. Or at least, there’s no limit to the promises that the powerful make about AI. We’re told by tech companies and their investors that AI has ...

The company is expanding its Music City Bluetooth speaker lineup with three new party models that introduce RGB lighting that syncs to the music playing. The Vegas, Miami, and New York speakers also ...

What is the sound of one hand clapping? You may have encountered this cryptic question at some point. It is a koan, or riddle, devised by the 18th-century Zen Buddhist master Hakuin Ekaku. Such ...

Initially opened in 2018, the BBC Sound Effects Archive is a remarkable and vast resource, incorporating recordings which originated as far back as the 1920s. Recently, the archive has doubled in size ...