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 ...

In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...

Those of you that are old enough to remember the popular song by Simon and Garfunkel, “The Sound of Silence,” which begins, “Hello Darkness My Old Friend,” will identify with me. For some strange ...

Silence might not be deafening, but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Disturbed’s “Sound of Silence” has been experiencing something of a ...

The post Disturbed’s “The Sound of Silence” Video Passes One Billion Views on YouTube appeared first on Consequence. The music video for Disturbed’s haunting cover of the Simon & Garfunkel classic ...

Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort ...

Scientists have long debated how we perceive the absence of sound waves hitting our ears. DrPixel via Getty Images From the roar of a crowd to the quiet of a library, sound and silence might seem like ...