Binaural beats, which use the 'swell' of the sound generated by letting the left and right ears hear sounds with slightly different frequencies, are said to have a healing effect by the low frequency ...

Thanks to anesthetics, patients on the operating table “sleep” through their surgery and don’t feel the pain of being cut open—at least, doctors hope. But at the wrong dose, these small molecules can ...

Acoustic phonetics is the study of the physical properties of speech and aims to analyse sound wave signals that occur within speech through varying frequencies, amplitudes and durations. One way we ...

SONGS can be created using people’s brain waves instead of sheet music, boffins reckon. They recreated Pink Floyd’s 1979 hit Another Brick in the Wall using electrical activity recorded from people ...