In space, no one can hear you scream. You may have heard this saying. It’s the tagline from the famous 1979 science fiction movie “Alien.” It’s a scary thought, but is it true? The simple answer is ...

Finally, someone can hear you scream in space. Sound waves can’t travel through the vacuum of space, but a pair of physicists in Finland have found a sneaky way to transmit sound across the airless ...

On a cool October morning in 2025, a sleek jet streaked across the sky above California’s Mojave Desert. This was NASA and ...

Summer is the season of sound in Chicago: from fireworks to car stereos, the jingle of paleta carts to outdoor concerts. But hearing a concert from over four miles away? That’s exactly what happened ...

When we talk about the speed of sound, we usually mean how fast it moves through air. But it can travel much faster through other media, and now scientists at the University of Cambridge and Queen ...

Today, Condé Nast Traveler joins Lucy Edwards at Sabi Sabi in South Africa to share what it’s like to experience safari blind. Lucy lost her sight twelve years ago and for a long time felt as though ...