S1 and S2 are the normal heart sounds you hear when the heart valves close. Heart murmurs are extra sounds that can be heard during systole, diastole, or as a continuous sound. S3 and S4 are abnormal ...

The study was conducted during the New Year fireworks display at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa. In-air microphones were used to measure both the sounds emitted by the ...

Fireworks divide opinions like few other subjects. To us as people, fireworks are either an exciting visual and auditory event or a stressful and unnecessary display, depending on one’s point of view.

In this post, we will show you how to enable or disable Spatial Sound in Windows 11. Spatial Sound is an advanced audio feature that creates an immersive, 3D sound experience, without requiring ...

Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox. As the Illinois governor, J. B. Pritzker, begins a run for a third term and ...

Erielle Sudario is a Collider News and Feature Author from Australia and has worked in the journalism industry since 2018. She has a passion for entertainment and pop culture news and has interviewed ...

The year in religion: What, in 2025, was contemporary art’s relationship to a world of changing – and radicalising – spiritual cultures? Where once religious bodies were the overwhelming patrons of – ...

Devices that conceal unwanted noises are the next frontier in advanced toilet technology. Would you like some peaceful birdsong, or perhaps a burst of artillery fire? Donna Burke, who moved to Japan ...

Pitkin County last week approved Atlantic Aviation’s improvement plan to Aspen/Pitkin County Airport’s private plane infrastructure. Atlantic Aviation, the airport’s fixed-base operator, signed a ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

Every day, your brain performs a remarkable trick: it carves a torrent of sound into crisp, recognizable words at lightning speed. New research shows this ability isn’t driven solely by higher ...