#sound

A 2,000-year-old Celtic war trumpet was just played again — and the gap between the sound it makes and the sound it once made is the most interesting part.

A Cold War surveillance network, designed to track Soviet submarines, accidentally became the first tool to reveal that whales might be communicating across entire ocean basins.

On the Shepard tone, auditory illusions, and what it means when your brain confidently perceives something that doesn't exist.

Why people obsess over mechanical keyboards and the particular sounds they make—when most of the time, we're not even listening.