Somewhere along the long, winding road of evolution, a bunch of genes got together in a conference room and decided it would probably be most optimal for human survival if we were forced to take in ...

In order for a fire to sustain itself, it needs three things: fuel, heat, and oxygen, with the disruption of just one of those causing the fire to extinguish. Water, sand, and carbon dioxide-based ...

Sound is not just something we hear—it’s vibration, and vibration interacts directly with the human body at a cellular level.

Imagine entering a hospital lobby to the sound of beach sand crunching and distant seagulls. In the elevator is the sound of the wind and flutes. Each floor has varying sound themes. This is reality ...

Biochemist Martin Gruebele regularly dons a pair of headphones in his lab at the University of Illinois. But instead of music, he listens to a cacophony of clinking, jarring noises — as if a group of ...

Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the cavernous sanctuary of a massive, stone cathedral. The sound a cathedral-goer will hear is affected by many factors, including the ...