Kathryn Gillespie asks us to notice the small wonders of life around us and be open to the idea that emotionally bonding with ...

We’re all used to crystal resonators — they provide pretty accurate frequency references for oscillators with low enough drift for most of our purposes. As the quartz equivalent of a tuning fork, they ...

“We used to use our culture to understand cancer. Now we use cancer to understand our culture.” (From NPR interview of Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of ...

Listener Alex Lips submits a SoundClip from his job at Unilever. He listens to the sound of soap on skin — just one of the factors, he says, that goes into designing pleasing products. Good personal ...

Researchers have recorded the sounds of the world's largest tree, a 13-million-pound (6 million kilograms) behemoth known as Pando that stretches across 106 acres (43 hectares) in southern Utah. The ...