NATURE
Why dissonant music strikes the wrong chord in the brain
The common aversion to clashing harmonies seems to be due to mathematical relationships of overtones.
PHYS
Algorithm recovers speech from potato chip bag
Researchers at MIT, Microsoft, and Adobe have developed an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio signal by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass.
POPSCI
Could A Sonic Weapon Make Your Head Explode?
Infrasonic sound can have very unusual non-auditory effects on the body. But does it kill?
TheAtlantic
Scientists Recover the Sounds of 19th-Century Music and Laughter
Computer analysis of a piece of foil reveals audio captured by a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878.