Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.

Infrasound is too low-frequency for humans to hear. It has been mistaken for ghosts, has been known to cause nausea and headaches in humans, and is used to monitor the testing of nuclear weapons. It’s ...

A new recording lets human ears listen in on the largest infrasound blasts ever recorded, created by the meteor that exploded over Russia last week. Infrasonic waves from the Russian meteor fireball ...

When North Korea conducted its third nuclear explosion on February 12, the global nuclear police, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization, detected it immediately and soon afterward released ...

Falcon 9 launch and booster landing: The International Monitoring System infrasound station in Bermuda recorded infrasound from the launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 7 ...

When the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded high over Russia on February 15, it was a blast heard around the world. This isn't just a figure of speech. Though too low-frequency for human hearing, sound waves ...

The Cotopaxi, a volcano located sixty miles from the city of Quito in Ecuador, is considered a dangerous volcano. More than 300,000 people live nearby and eruptions in the past have caused widespread ...

Con Doolan receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In a radio interview this morning, Prime Minister Tony Abbott raised what he described as the “potential health impacts” of wind farms ...

Along the coast, waves break with a familiar sound. The gentle swash of the surf on the seashore can lull us to sleep, while the pounding of storm surge warns us to seek shelter. Space junk and ...

A new recording lets human ears listen in on the largest infrasound blasts ever recorded, created by the meteor that exploded over Russia last week. Infrasonic waves from the Russian meteor fireball ...