Wit Aniwat, whose family runs an elephant camp for tourists in Thailand, was awakened by an unusual alarm clock: the trumpeting and wailing of elephants. It was a bit out of the ordinary, but Wit ...

Sonic Fire Tech’s infrasound system detects and stops wildfires without water, offering a new defense for California homes.

The key ingredients for a fire are heat, fuel and oxygen; take one of these away, and the flames are extinguished. Sound ...

Although they’re emitted by some in the animal world, infrasound are sound waves with frequencies so low, they are beyond the limit of human hearing. Now, thanks to the app call RedVox, scientists and ...

Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.

Sonic Fire Tech, a US startup founded by former NASA engineer Geoff Bruder, is developing an infrasound-based fire prevention ...

An acoustic engineering group has refuted claims the frequencies generated by wind turbines can make people sick. The Association of Australian Acoustical Consultants (AAAC), has released the findings ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

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 ...

Sonic Fire Tech, co-founded by aerospace engineer Geoff Bruder, has developed a system that uses infrasound – low-frequency sound waves below the threshold of human hearing ...