They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home ...

Sound Transit held an all-day retreat last week to figure out how to close a $34.5 billion gap. They say they’re working on bringing costs down. And maybe they’ll shave something off. But here’s where ...

A beloved classic is making its long-awaited return to Philadelphia. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s acclaimed musical “The Sound of Music” will take the stage at the Academy of Music from March 31 through ...

She was just 13-years-old when she played one of the seven von Trapp children in the classic film, The Sound of Music. The iconic 1965 film saw Julie Andrews star as Governess Maria, a nun who cares ...

In 1930, the Galvin brothers built the first in-car radio system, famously known as the Motorola. Slowly, consumers began to expect radio and sound systems in their cars and lower and lower trim ...

Casey Means has, to say the least, modified her tone. When she testified today in front of the Senate’s health committee, the nominee for surgeon general didn’t, as she is normally wont to do, delve ...

Lego's controversial wave of tech-enhanced 'Star Wars' sets are getting into people's hands, and showing the premium being paid isn't quite worth it. Reading time 3 minutes Ever since they were ...

When a horse whinnies, it is making two sounds simultaneously as no other animal can: a low-pitched noise made in a similar way to a cow’s moo and a high-pitched whistle made in its throat. It has ...

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To understand hearing in the tobacco hornworm caterpillar, researchers played sounds and observed the caterpillars' behavioral ...

Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it could inspire next generation microphones. To understand hearing in the ...

Can Alzheimer’s disease be slowed by flickering lights and sound? That is the question that drives Annabelle Singer, an associate professor and biomedical engineer at Georgia Institute of Technology ...