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The World Has A New Loudest Person, And He Can Yell At 122.4dB. That's Even More Impressive When You Know Decibels Are Logarithmic.Close up of a man's mouth, yelling.

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The World Has A New Loudest Person, And He Can Yell At 122.4dB. That's Even More Impressive When You Know Decibels Are Logarithmic.Close up of a man's mouth, yelling.
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The World Has A New Loudest Person, And He Can Yell At 122.4dB. That's Even More Impressive When You Know Decibels Are Logarithmic.

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Vic Tandy And The Bizarre Story Of The “Haunted Lab” That Was Solved By Bringing A Sword To Worka lab that looks dark and spooky, ripe for a haunting

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Vic Tandy And The Bizarre Story Of The “Haunted Lab” That Was Solved By Bringing A Sword To Worka lab that looks dark and spooky, ripe for a haunting
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Vic Tandy And The Bizarre Story Of The “Haunted Lab” That Was Solved By Bringing A Sword To Work

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The Loudest Sound Recorded On Earth Clocked In At Around 310 Decibels, And Could Be Heard 4,800 Kilometers Away A 1929 photograph of the area near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Russia, where a meteor air burst exploded nearly 21 years prior during the Tunguska Event. There are hundreds of fallen trees.

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The Loudest Sound Recorded On Earth Clocked In At Around 310 Decibels, And Could Be Heard 4,800 Kilometers Away A 1929 photograph of the area near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, Russia, where a meteor air burst exploded nearly 21 years prior during the Tunguska Event. There are hundreds of fallen trees.
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The Loudest Sound Recorded On Earth Clocked In At Around 310 Decibels, And Could Be Heard 4,800 Kilometers Away

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A Physicist Recreated The Sound Of The Big Bang – And It Sounds Eerily WonderfulA full-sky map of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation — a snapshot of the universe at just 370,000 years old — that shows faint temperature fluctuations.

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A Physicist Recreated The Sound Of The Big Bang – And It Sounds Eerily WonderfulA full-sky map of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation — a snapshot of the universe at just 370,000 years old — that shows faint temperature fluctuations.
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A Physicist Recreated The Sound Of The Big Bang – And It Sounds Eerily Wonderful

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The Screeching Noise Made By Scotch Tape Just Got A Supersonic ExplanationTape on a dispenser, on the carpet.

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The Screeching Noise Made By Scotch Tape Just Got A Supersonic ExplanationTape on a dispenser, on the carpet.
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The Screeching Noise Made By Scotch Tape Just Got A Supersonic Explanation

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The Quietest Place On Earth Has An Ambient Sound Level Of Minus 24.9 DecibelsHaleakala National Park, one of the quietest natural places on Earth.

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The Quietest Place On Earth Has An Ambient Sound Level Of Minus 24.9 DecibelsHaleakala National Park, one of the quietest natural places on Earth.
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The Quietest Place On Earth Has An Ambient Sound Level Of Minus 24.9 Decibels

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People Are Only Just Learning How CDs Play MusicA pile of CD, compact discs, showing their shinyness.

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People Are Only Just Learning How CDs Play MusicA pile of CD, compact discs, showing their shinyness.
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People Are Only Just Learning How CDs Play Music

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This 600-Year-Old Inca Building Was Designed For An Incredible Acoustic ReasonA picture of the side of a church. The first meter or so of the construction show a dinstic incan style before becoming a classic european looking church.

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This 600-Year-Old Inca Building Was Designed For An Incredible Acoustic ReasonA picture of the side of a church. The first meter or so of the construction show a dinstic incan style before becoming a classic european looking church.
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This 600-Year-Old Inca Building Was Designed For An Incredible Acoustic Reason

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Infrasound: The Noise That Travels Further Than Any Other On Earthwind turbine, whale, and lightning

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Infrasound: The Noise That Travels Further Than Any Other On Earthwind turbine, whale, and lightning
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Infrasound: The Noise That Travels Further Than Any Other On Earth

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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced SoundsHealthy tomato plants with red fruit and green leaves growing in a line

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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced SoundsHealthy tomato plants with red fruit and green leaves growing in a line
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For The First Time, An Animal Has Been Shown Responding To Plant-Produced Sounds

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Dolphins May Not "See" With Echolocation, But Instead "Feel" With ItAn underwater photo showing bottlenose dolphin swimming down from the surface towards the camera. The water is clear and sun is making the center of the shot a lighter tone to the rest of it.

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Dolphins May Not "See" With Echolocation, But Instead "Feel" With ItAn underwater photo showing bottlenose dolphin swimming down from the surface towards the camera. The water is clear and sun is making the center of the shot a lighter tone to the rest of it.
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Dolphins May Not "See" With Echolocation, But Instead "Feel" With It

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Who Needs Ears? Your Cells Can Respond To SoundThe fundamental relationship between life and sound

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Who Needs Ears? Your Cells Can Respond To SoundThe fundamental relationship between life and sound
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Who Needs Ears? Your Cells Can Respond To Sound

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Want To Hear What A Shark Sounds Like? Study Captures First-Ever Shark Noise Recordingsa new zealand rig shark, slender grey body against black background

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Want To Hear What A Shark Sounds Like? Study Captures First-Ever Shark Noise Recordingsa new zealand rig shark, slender grey body against black background
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Want To Hear What A Shark Sounds Like? Study Captures First-Ever Shark Noise Recordings

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Watch Invisible Electrical "Wires" Be Created Using Sounda purple spark of plasma being guided around an obstacle

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Watch Invisible Electrical "Wires" Be Created Using Sounda purple spark of plasma being guided around an obstacle
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Watch Invisible Electrical "Wires" Be Created Using Sound

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What Sounds Do Viruses Make? We Can’t Hear Them, But We Can Make Use Of Themdigital illustration of a purple COVID virus particle on a darker purple backdrop with wavy lines to indicate sound patterns

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What Sounds Do Viruses Make? We Can’t Hear Them, But We Can Make Use Of Themdigital illustration of a purple COVID virus particle on a darker purple backdrop with wavy lines to indicate sound patterns
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What Sounds Do Viruses Make? We Can’t Hear Them, But We Can Make Use Of Them

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