If you've heard deep bass, the roar of a jet engine, or rumbling thunder, you may have felt it in your body. Our cells have a variety of ways to sense mechanical forces, including those that can be ...

The power of sound reaches far beyond your ears. While you're used to hearing sound through music, voices, or noise, your body is also quietly listening—at the cellular level. Recent research shows ...

When we hear sounds, specialized cells in the cochlear nucleus are the first to process that information, enabling our brains to understand speech, enjoy music and recognize various noises. For ...

Kids, lawn mowers, planes, trains, automobiles—just about everything makes noise. And if two California scientists are right, so, too, do living cells. In recent experiments using the frontier science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new study, Japanese researchers found that acoustic sound waves can influence how our cells behave -- including halting fat ...

We tend to think of seeds as passive objects waiting blindly for water and warmth. It turns out they are actively listening, ...