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Electricity is all around us, and even inside us. The presence of electricity has really skyrocketed in the past century, however, with the development of electronics. Today, our homes and communities ...

Residents in Taos, New Mexico, have long reported a mysterious low-frequency hum with no identifiable source. Despite ...

At some point in your life, you’ve likely heard a humming in your head or a ringing in your ears. You looked around to see if anyone else was hearing it, only to find you were the only one. Maybe you ...

Light sleepers understand how noises—the din of a city street, the hum of a radiator, or simply the sound of another human existing next to you—can get in the way of high-quality sleep. That’s where ...

The hummingbird is named after its pleasant humming sound when it hovers in front of flowers to feed. But only now has it become clear how the wing generates the hummingbird's namesake sound when it ...