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 ...

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A new review by University of Tartu researchers dispels fears that low-frequency infrasound from wind farms harms human health, noting audible noise is the real concern. For years, one of the main ...

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 ...

Sound recording equipment is getting better all the time. Researchers from Boise State University, Stanford University, and Chile’s University of Concepcion have just found a new, very specific ...

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.