A wave of sound envelops the room, an ethereal crystal vibration and humming, before a gong interrupts the reverie. Welcome ...

Most of us already have some personal experience with the power of sound — whether it's a specific frequency that keeps you calm, or the white noise that helps you sleep at night. Taking this basic ...

I drove up to my first sound bath experience not knowing quite what to expect. The meditative practice, which utilizes chimes, gongs, and an arsenal of “vibrational musical instruments,” has existed ...

Absorbing excess sound to make public environments like theaters and concert halls safer for hearing and using the unwanted sound waves to create electricity is the aim of a new paper. The authors ...

Summer is the season of sound in Chicago: from fireworks to car stereos, the jingle of paleta carts to outdoor concerts. But hearing a concert from over four miles away? That’s exactly what happened ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. At the start of my career, I used to do acoustic testing in an anechoic chamber where sound ...

What Is a Sound Bath? A sound bath is a meditative experience where you lie down and let waves of sound wash over you. There’s no water involved. The “bath” part comes from how sound surrounds you, ...

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Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...