A bird call has gone viral and taken people who grew up in the 2000s right back to their childhoods. I remember the same sound waking me up as a kid and soundtracking my teenage years. I asked an ...

Adrienne Bawa pulled into the parking lot of the First Congregational Church of L.A., her seven-seater Volvo filled with fabric, gongs and lights. It was two hours before the registered nurse and ...

We asked experts about the health benefits of listening to gongs, chimes and crystal bowls. By Nicole Stock As the sun set over the Pacific Ocean, the beach cool against my back, a voice invited me to ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. I drove up to my first sound bath experience not knowing quite ...

I’ve always been intrigued by how our chaotic world impacts on our wellbeing. With deadlines on the horizon, a relentless to-do list and working in London, a city that never sleeps, it’s not ...

In school, the architect’s study of acoustics is categorized as building science, squeezed between calculations of light and thermal performance. We learn that sound is physical energy, measured by ...

It’s 8 o’clock on a Saturday night and I’m standing in my pajamas on the third floor of a nondescript office building in Beverly Hills waiting for a man dressed in white to clear my energy with sage.

“The sound machine can generate any of several types of sound, from nature [or] music,” Dr. Cory Portnuff, an audiologist at the University of Colorado Health’s Hearing and Balance Clinic, says. In ...

Scientists have long debated how we perceive the absence of sound waves hitting our ears. DrPixel via Getty Images From the roar of a crowd to the quiet of a library, sound and silence might seem like ...

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...