As I walk up the steep cobbled streets, another sound filters in — the plucking ... that’s dimly lit by purple light, its rough walls hung with brass cooking pots and family photos.

It is the consonant sounds that are most important in speech ... STC - Sound Transmission Class - sound reduction from one side of barrier to the other - walls; single pass rating.

The Chicago-based musician combines jazz, poetry and archival sounds on an album of category-defying sonic collages.

The hardest tongue twister is packed with sequences of similar sounds, particularly consonants, that are super tricky to say quickly or repeatedly. The difficulty arises because these phrases ...

Boom will now shift its attentions toward developing Overture, its supersonic passenger jet.

A new mural on the Kūihelani Highway sound wall in Puʻunēnē was created by two Maui artists in collaboration with the State ...

A US company's prototype jet has broken the sound barrier in a demonstration it hopes will pave the way for a successor to the Concorde. Boom Supersonic's XB-1 is the first civilian aircraft to ...

The Department of Environment and Local Government extended the company's approval to March 31, 2025, with a condition that it assess the effectiveness of the sound barrier. The assessment was carried ...

The Department of Environment and Local Government extended the company's approval to March 31, 2025, with a condition that it assess the effectiveness of the sound barrier. The assessment was ...

Boom Supersonic passed a major milestone Tuesday on its path to reintroduce supersonic commercial flights. After years of testing and refinement, a pilot flying the aerospace company’s XB-1 scale ...