The global "hum" of the Earth is now helping scientists probe the planet's deep interior, a group of researchers say. Since this hum — called seismic noise, which is generated by sources such as storm ...

Thanks to humans, the Earth is a pretty noisy place. We’re loud creatures — certainly more so than any other animal ever to walk the planet — and we’re even louder when we get together with other ...

If you turned off every video game system, car stereo, and TV on the planet, and if everyone held their breath and didn’t make a peep, there would still be a sound, though you couldn’t exactly hear it ...

Far from the blaring cacophony of cities, towns and suburbs, there are far quieter soundtracks to be found -- the murmurs of wind rustling grasses, rushing waves tumbling onto beaches, the creaking of ...

A strange bell-like ring emitted by the Earth has left oceanographers confused for decades, but a new study may have found an explanation. The low-frequency sound, which is inaudible to human ears but ...

Strange as it may seem, the Earth’s atmosphere rings out in a chorus of frequencies just below the reach of the human ear. Although we cannot hear these “infrasonic” waves — which have frequencies ...

Our blue planet spins suspended in outer space—and it hums, too. European researchers say the Earth's incessant hum originates from the bottom of the ocean. This study, published by researchers from ...