Sounds
Sounds detected from sub may have signalled its implosion
It's now thought the US navy detected sounds that signalled the catastrophic implosion of the Titan sub during its descent to the Titanic wreckage. Multiple chunks of debris from the vessel have been… Video, Audio
Struggling to hear in noisy settings? It could be dementia
Do you struggle to hear people or keep up with conversations when there's noise around? A new study of 80,000 adults over the age of 60 links this to dementia risk. Epidemiologist and study author… Audio
Our Changing World for 10 September 2020
An ecologist and a mathematician are collaborating on open source software called AviaNZ that will allow a computer to identify bird calls. Audio
Our Changing World for 22 August 2019
Does playing different sounds to fermenting yeast change the taste of beer and osmium, the densest chemical element. Audio
Frog sounds
Kirsten Parris of The University of Melbourne is the author of Ecology of Urban Environments (Wiley). She loves frogs and is studying how the noises we humans make affect frog habitats, and even the… Audio
Foley artists
Foley is the art of recreating sounds that then get added back into films or TV shows or video games to make them sound better. Amy Barber and Jonathan Bruce work as Foley mixers, editors and artists… Audio, Gallery
Symbolic sounds
Consumer history is littered with product names that have been lost in translation. Now there's something else for people naming new products to worry about! Work in the field of sound symbolism by… Audio
Sounds from the deep
The first audio recordings have been taken at the deepest point of of the world's oceans. NOAA oceanographer Dr Robert Dziak explains that it's far from quiet 11 kilometres underwater. Audio
Summer sounds
What are the sounds of a Kiwi summer? Cicadas? Surf? The jingle of the Mr Whippy ice-cream van? Sarah Johnston at Nga Taonga Sound & Vision has been listening to some recordings from the sound… Audio
Undersea sounds
It's not just whales and dolphins using whistles, clicks and other sounds to communicate underwater. Craig Radford of the University of Auckland is studying undersea sounds, and has found a local fish… Audio