At 7:30 AM on August 29, 2013, residents of Terrace BC Canada awoke to a bizarre cavalcade of earth-shaking noises. Tapes of the eerie-sounding noise have appeared on social media outlets, such as YouTube, and reveal a chorus of unearthly, mind-numbing noises described alternatively as sounding like ghosts wailing, apocalyptic trumpets, or a symphony of…
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Make a homemade hearing aid – collect sound vibrations using a paper cone experiment.
Make a homemade Kazoo musical instrument – a science experiment to create vibrations of compressed air (sound)
Ah, the sound of beautiful music. But what some will call music, others will call noise. The lab rats and monkeys are partial to Metallica while Geek Slop is more of a Beethoven aficionado. Put the two groups of musical tastes together and well, you have a big fight over what radio station to listen…
Have you lost your marbles?
Good, good, good vibrations – sound and vibrations experiment
Michigan dispatch receives more than 30 calls regarding mysterious booms in the area
There were more than 30 calls coming into the Branch County 911 Dispatch Center in Michigan this past weekend regarding mysterious “booms”. All calls came from the northwest part of the county. Many residents in the area thought someone was breaking into their home. Fox News reached out to the closest military base and they…
Mysterious loud booms are being reported across the United States leaving scientists puzzled
Persons all over the United States have been reporting mysterious loud “booming” sounds, sometimes accompanied by a bright flash of light. In some instances witnesses have reporting seeing strange formations in the sky immediately preceding the boom. Some have reported “orange lights” while others “circular shaped object with a dot in the center”. Mass reports…
In the quietest chamber on Earth, the sound of your own heartbeat will drive you crazy
A room in the Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is the quietest place on Earth and you might be surprised to learn that your brain can only tolerate so much silence before you begin to hallucinate. Inside the room, you will hear the sound of your lungs expanding and contracting, your stomach digesting food, even…
New “sound wave” knife is so accurate, surgeons can detach a single cancer cell with it
Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a new knife that uses high-amplitude sound waves, instead of a knife blade, to cut tissue. The new sound-based knife, which can focus sound waves to finer points than every before, is magnitudes more accurate than previous technologies. It can cut an area of tissue, using pressure…









