Sometimes, the most important sounds are those that cannot be heard. Take infrasound—acoustic waves below the range of human hearing. Although nuclear weapons blasts, midair meteor explosions, ...

Sound recording equipment is getting better all the time. Researchers from Boise State University, Stanford University, and Chile’s University of Concepcion have just found a new, very specific ...

Infrasound is too low-frequency for humans to hear. It has been mistaken for ghosts, has been known to cause nausea and headaches in humans, and is used to monitor the testing of nuclear weapons. It’s ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. At the centre of claims about wind farms allegedly causing health problems is the infrasound that wind turbines generate as ...

Opponents of wind farms in the US and Canada insist that low-frequency noise generated by turbines is detrimental to human health. But in Germany, experts aren't convinced that infranoise poses a ...