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, or audio with a frequency lower than 20 hertz, is all around you, but usually humans are incapable of hearing it. Amherst College sound artist Brian House has been using new technology to ...

Are wind farms harmful to humans? This controversial topic makes emotions run high. To give the debate more objectivity, an international team of experts dealt with the fundamentals of hearing in the ...

IN JANUARY an elephant entered Moragoda village in northern Sri Lanka and killed a father in his vegetable garden. In July, a dairy farmer from the east was killed taking his cow out to graze. Now an ...

The next time you walk into a purportedly “haunted” house and sense a ghostly presence, consider that those feelings might be due to vibrating pipes, mechanical or climate control systems, rumbling ...

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 ...

University of Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. At the centre of claims about wind farms allegedly causing health problems is the infrasound that wind turbines generate as ...