An acoustic engineering group has rejected claims that the frequencies created by wind turbines can have adverse health issues, saying the infrasound generated is often less than a person’s heart-beat ...

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 ...

When I was eight years old, I was on the verge of being eaten. Terrified, I buried myself underneath the blankets, and nervously listened to an unearthly howling directly outside my bedroom window. I ...

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.

In his 1973 book Supernature, the scientist and adventurer Lyall Watson tells the story of a six-foot-long whistle. Part of an experiment in the 1960s, the enormous device was designed to explore the ...

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 ...

University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau provides funding as a member of The Conversation NZ. University of Auckland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. A surge in health ...

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Scientists will today investigate whether a vibrating sewer pipe can move an audience of music lovers in the largest experiment of its kind. The team will test whether such vibrations on the cusp of ...

SALT LAKE CITY —The thunderous roar of Chile's Villarrica volcano carries for miles. The active volcano's churning lava lake constantly rumbles, said Jeff Johnson, a volcanologist at Boise State ...