In his 1973 book Supernature, the scientist and adventurer Lyall Watson tells the story of a six-foot-long whistle. Part of an experiment in the 1960s, the enormous device was designed to explore the ...

Scientists rejected so-called ‘wind turbine syndrome’ as a cause of sleep-related disorders after an in-depth study that tested the impact of their infrasound emissions on health. Australia’s Woolcock ...

University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Auckland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. A surge in health ...

Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.

Infrasound is too low-frequency for humans to hear. It has been mistaken for ghosts, has been known to cause nausea and headaches in humans, and is used to monitor the testing of nuclear weapons. It’s ...

Sound recording equipment is getting better all the time. Researchers from Boise State University, Stanford University, and Chile’s University of Concepcion have just found a new, very specific ...

The Cotopaxi, a volcano located sixty miles from the city of Quito in Ecuador, is considered a dangerous volcano. More than 300,000 people live nearby and eruptions in the past have caused widespread ...

Wit Aniwat, whose family runs an elephant camp for tourists in Thailand, was awakened by an unusual alarm clock: the trumpeting and wailing of elephants. It was a bit out of the ordinary, but Wit ...

Fish migrating downstream take quite a risk if their rivers are bordered by industries that use large amount of water for cooling or hydroelectric purposes. Water intakes generally open in the ...