Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and ...

How sound waves work. Sound waves are a type of energy that’s released when an object vibrates. Those acoustic waves travel from their source through air or another medium, and when they come ...

From Martian winds to Saturn’s aurora, how sounds in space add to our understanding of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your body is also quietly listening—at the cellular level. Recent research shows ...

Fisheries acoustics uses sound waves to detect who's swimming through Maine's waters. At its core, fisheries acoustics is essentially a really "fancy fish finder," says Aaron Whitman, a senior ...

Satellites recording sound waves resonating with the Earth’s magnetosphere – the magnetic bubble that protects us from space radiation – show that we are indeed living inside a massive ...

Music for your cells . The new research builds on a 2018 study by Kumeta and his team that found that sound waves can influence genes involved in bone formation and wound healing. “To ...

People who listened to sounds that were synchronized to their slow brain wave oscillations while they were asleep experienced a boost in memory, Psych Central reported. Experts said that these ...

Yet water doesn’t mute sound, but amplifies it. Sound waves travel 4.3 times faster underwater than they do in the air and they retain their energy for much longer.

Scientists have picked up "sounds" from solar system bodies, including radio waves from Saturn and vibrations in the magnetic field of Comet 67P/ Churyumov-Gerasimenko.