The riskiest instrument is the voice, at least when it comes to spreading viruses such as Sars-CoV2. Compared to breathing quietly, infected people release more than 500 times more particles into the ...

Something in all living things responds mysteriously to the sound of wind in the reeds. At the gentle pleasing of a flute, certain crabs glide out of their caves and sit listening under water.

Although the prehistoric site of Eynan-Mallaha in northern Israel has been thoroughly examined since 1955, it still holds some surprises for scientists. Seven prehistoric wind instruments known as ...

What is it about the flute that captivates our being? The legendary Sufi thinker Hazrat Inayat Khan, who wrote extensively on ‘Brahma Naad’ or ‘Sawt Surmad,’ the primordial sound, explained that it ...