Oct. 12, 2012 -- The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain.

Brain activity synchronizes with sound waves, even without audible sound, through lip-reading, according to new research published in JNeurosci. Listening to speech activates our auditory cortex to ...

Video cameras continue to gain widespread use, but there are privacy and environmental limitations in how well they work. Acoustical waves are an alternative medium that may bypass those limitations.

A new suite of Health-related functions are landing on Apple Watch and watchOS 6. As announced in the recent WWDC 2019 presentation, activity tracking with the Watch has been bolstered thanks to new ...

Activity tracking can be beautiful, and it doesn't require a screen or a battery. Emulsion is an "analog activity tracker" from Norwegian design studio Skrekkøgle. It takes the form of a watch, but ...