We all know inhaling helium makes your voice sound high and squeaky, but do you know why? If you’ve ever inhaled from a helium balloon at a birthday party or watched this scene from My Best Friend’s ...

In the early 1980s, two Soviet-era missions, Venera 13 and 14, measured sound waves on Venus, producing a measurement of wind ...

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Introduction With summer here you might find yourself at a parade, party or fair sometime soon. While you're there you will probably be surrounded by sounds of all kinds: fireworks, music and, of ...

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If you plug your ears, the voices around you become muffled—while yours becomes annoyingly amplified. “It’s like talking with your head in a barrel. Your own voice sounds booming,” says Kévin Carillo, ...

Acoustic frequency filters, which convert electrical signals into miniaturized sound waves, separate the different frequency ...