When you finally get home after a hard day’s work, the whistle of a stove-top kettle can be a truly comforting sound. Until now, scientists have been unable to explain what makes the noise. But a ...

Forget what the fox says. Until recently, the bigger mystery was why the kettle whistles. The high-pitched note emitted by hot kettles has puzzled scientists for more than a century, but thanks to two ...

British physicist Lord Rayleigh is best known for his discovery of argon and for explaining, in 1871, why the sky is blue. But he also puzzled over this: [sound of a kettle whistling]. Rayleigh knew ...

Cambridge University has solved the riddle of why a kettle whistles as it boils - it's all in the swirls of steam, apparently. 17 November 2013 • 11:09am Why does a kettle whistle? It's all down to ...

Scientists at Cambridge University have solved the age-old mystery of why a kettle whistles when it comes to a boil. It is down to the speed at which swirls of steam are funnelled through the kettle's ...