How loud can sound really get? The human ear can safely hear up to around 120 decibels. Beyond that, it starts to hurt. At 150 decibels, eardrums can rupture. But history has witnessed sounds far ...

How do people keep the beat to music? When people listen to songs, slow waves of activity in the brain correspond to the ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering new ways of targeting cancer.

“In the best-case scenario, when you adopt these new techniques, even on the same old data, it’s kind of like putting on ...

This is because while the ability to pair an arbitrary sound with a specific meaning is widespread in human language, it is rarely seen ... humans and animals also produce instinctive sounds. For ...

We are scientists and engineers who are exploring ways to use heart sounds to detect disease earlier and more accurately. Our research suggests that combining stethoscopes with artificial intelligence ...

When the GenAI hype was just picking up steam, I wrote about the danger of drowning in LLM-produced blah if we failed to utilize the expertise of human linguists. It gives me no pleasure to say I was ...

Learn how to detect AI in writing using one of these manual visual check methods that don't require any external tools.

Microplastics have completely permeated Earth's environment and our own bodies, from the top of Mount Everest to the deepest parts of the ocean to even inside our own brains. However, a meta-analysis ...

The harm of plastics on human health is well known, but what about their impact on the people living near the plants that ...

Andrew Ortmann’s long-running, collaborative Panicsville project has traversed countless confounding musical paths across ...

The AI revolution is bringing with it a whole new vocabulary to describe its advances. Use this glossary to stay up-to-date.