Hans Zimmer knows what you expect a sci-fi film to sound like. Between John Williams' iconic Star Wars score and the use of "The Blue Danube" in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the template was set long ago.

LIFT A SHELL from the sand to your ear and everyone knows you can hear the sea. But listen carefully enough and you can hear shells in the sand too. Sand, it turns out, has a signature sound of its ...

A US woman living in Australia has been left baffled by an “insane” noise she heard while on a beach on the Gold Coast. Tate Duane, from California, who goes by the TikTok handle “twaynne” has racked ...

Certain desert sand dunes produce a deep, sustained sound, reaching up to 100 decibels, due to synchronized grain movement ...

Certain desert dunes produce a deep, steady sound. This phenomenon occurs when dry sand slides down a dune's steep slope. Millions of grains move together, creating a low-frequency hum. This requires ...