What's the most beautiful sound you can think of? The Most Beautiful Sound in the World competition was recently launched to pit these different sonic captures against each other. GIF of a spherical ...

Have you ever been lucky enough to snorkel in the ocean? For some it's terrifying because you don't know what's lurking in the dark that you can't see, but for many (like me!) it's like being ...

Jazz is often called “America’s classical music,” but a 77-year-old man in Germany has spent most of his life debunking that claim, with formidable success. Few in the general public recognize the ...

DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...

The monolithic speakers of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 2 look like a cross between a gigantic honeycomb and the front of a “Jetsons” spaceship. The ...