#sound

A 165-million-year-old cricket's song was reconstructed from fossilized wings — and it's still recognizably a cricket.

The Trautonium was a synthesizer invented in 1929 that almost nobody remembers — except it shaped the sound of one of cinema's most famous films, and then vanished.

A 2,000-year-old Celtic war trumpet was just played again — and the gap between the sound it makes and the sound it once made is the most interesting part.

A Cold War surveillance network, designed to track Soviet submarines, accidentally became the first tool to reveal that whales might be communicating across entire ocean basins.

On the Shepard tone, auditory illusions, and what it means when your brain confidently perceives something that doesn't exist.

Why people obsess over mechanical keyboards and the particular sounds they make—when most of the time, we're not even listening.