The Sound Barrier is a four-episode series where we explore the limits of hearing and the ways we can break through.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study shows that people are able to perceive biodiversity through sights and sounds, and those perceptions correlate with the actual ...

Sounds reach our ears from different locations and first travel through the ear into the ear canal. Then tiny bones inside the middle ear end up vibrating and pushing on a small window. This then gets ...

Are you old enough to remember the “Magic Eye” optical illusion mania that gripped the nation in the 90’s—random patterns that you had to squint at just right for the 3D image to pop out? It turns out ...