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

Ever since the dawn of time, sound has been a unifying force allowing us to tap deep into the emotions that lie buried within. Through chanting, preaching, celebrating, crying, dancing and living, we ...

Sounds hold memories, from a certain song that brings back fond memories to random noises that spark emotions of joy, sadness, and amusement. Sounds that U.S. filmmaker Sam Green highlighted in his ...

Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In ways, it is difficult to believe that it has been almost a year since we moved to Crawfordville after down-sizing from our ...

Biochemist Martin Gruebele regularly dons a pair of headphones in his lab at the University of Illinois. But instead of music, he listens to a cacophony of clinking, jarring noises — as if a group of ...

“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 ...