Conduction is the direct flow of heat from your warm body into your colder surroundings. In winter, all that heat escaping ...

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Satyen K. Bordoloi as he profiles the companies and nations trying to figure out whether Schrodinger’s cat is alive, or not.

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Why do songs replay in your mind with no off switch? A music psychologist explains earworm triggers, repetition, and ...

We tend to think music relaxes us, energises us, or helps us focus when we’re behind the wheel. Here’s what the science says.

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Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

We explore what researchers are learning about the connections between noise, hearing loss, and our well-being.