Our atmosphere is filled with sounds that we cannot hear. The Earth hums; volcanoes howl, pop and whistle; storms roar menacingly; and meteors scream before exploding high above the ground. We are ...

A new study finds that inaudible sound waves called infrasound may cause people to experience a creepy, haunted feeling. Research subjects exposed to infrasound had higher levels of the stress hormone ...

Commentary: Beneath the threshold of human perception lies an invisible ocean of sound — and scientists are just beginning to ...

Research by Pieter Smets of TU Delft and the KNMI shows that infrasound can be used for weather and climate forecasts. These inaudible low sound waves can be used to gain a better picture of the ...

Infrasound is very low-frequency sound, below 20 Hertz (Hz), which humans typically can’t hear. It can come from natural sources like storms, or from anthropogenic sources like traffic. Some animals ...

A new study by the University of Liverpool provides the first evidence that wandering albatrosses, one of the widest-ranging seabirds, may use infrasound to help them navigate long and featureless ...

A new study has investigated the hypothesis that some accounts of hauntings could be explained by the effects of infrasound, finding real physiological and psychological effects when infrasound was ...

The world is filled with sounds below the range of typical human hearing. These invisible noises, known as infrasound, can even come from within your home, stemming from old pipes, ventilation systems ...

Along the coast, waves break with a familiar sound. The gentle swash of the surf on the seashore can lull us to sleep, while the pounding of storm surge warns us to seek shelter. Yet these are but a ...

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 ...

In a radio interview this morning, Prime Minister Tony Abbott raised what he described as the “potential health impacts” of wind farms. Yesterday’s article in The Australian by Liberal Democrat ...