A Galway musician has earned heaps of praise for his accidental acapella rendition of Disturbed's The Sound of Silence.

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A 100 Hz sound developed by Nagoya University researchers safely reduces motion sickness by stimulating the inner ear and improving balance. A research team led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Na ...

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Scientists have been able to remotely detect, capture and analyze the sound of the invasive Asian hornet in flight, in a move which could help save honeybee colonies from distress and destruction.

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In a new study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, the researchers report that they've recorded the first ever instance of a shark actively producing a sound, in the form of sharp, ...

But scientists at the University of Auckland in New Zealand recently recorded a rig shark, or Mustelus lenticulatus, making a sharp clicking sound, most likely by snapping its teeth together ...

"I had never considered that any of the sharks I was studying could make any sort of sound. I was under the assumption that sharks are silent fish, so they wouldn't make any active sounds," she said.

While cartilaginous fish like sharks and rays are known to use sound for communicating, tracking prey, and for safely moving underwater, they are not known for producing sounds voluntarily.

“But I think the original notion that we had that sound isn’t important at all is also likely not true.” Nieder first heard the sounds by accident in 2021, while she was conducting her PhD ...