Timbre is an elusive sonic attribute. UVA professor Leah Reid has devoted her career to pinning it down. Reid, who’ll host a meet-the-composer event at the Staunton Music Festival, says timbre is “the ...

I’ve been helping my wife organize her digital life recently and part of it was collecting all her digital backups from ...

The sounds of our world are changing. We’ve muffled the noises; changed rings to tones, buzzes to beeps, and bangs to cushioned clicks. Doors are closed, and lives are insulated ...

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: I just read your article on property tax ...

Dave Green’s film about Wile E. Coyote’s quest for compensation sounds a note of zany triumph, having escaped, Road ...

The beeping sound accompanies alerts scrolling across the bottom of the screen. It signals to viewers who are visually impaired — and may have difficulty reading the text crawling along the bottom — ...

Modern biomedicine increasingly relies on enormous amounts of image data. Although computers can do part of the analysis work, biologists often still need to look through the images themselves. This ...

San Jose Mineta International Airport will soon be opening a room specially designed to provide these young travelers with a place to calm frayed nerves.

I’m trying to decide when our lives became controlled by beeps. When I was growing up, I don’t remember anything that beeped. Now I can’t think of anything that doesn’t. I’m frankly feeling ...

That little chirp is doing more than just making noise—it’s confirming your car is secure.

I behave very strangely in my kitchen. On any given day, you will find me, often mid-conversation, sprinting from one end of the room to the other. Nothing on the stove has caught fire. No pots are ...

If you're watching animal videos with the sound off, stop what you're doing immediately and turn it up. Seriously. Because one adorable deaf Australian Cattle Dog named Boomer is making noises so ...