Chill out and silence the sounds of your environment with the sounds of rain, the ocean and more. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac/W.carter/Wikimedia Commons Working in an office or in the city, ...

There are times when backgrounds sounds can help you sleep or calm you down—like sounds of the ocean or even static noise. There are many websites and iPhone apps that can help you play a wide variety ...

Do you just need a little distance from the world and the constant cacophony of noise? Relaxing sounds are a great way to get away from it all, and your iOS 15 iPhone can now play a collection of ...

Who needs a white noise machine when your iPhone comes with all the ocean sounds you could ask for? The feature is a little hidden away in the iPhone's settings, but once you finish the initial setup, ...

One of the upgrades to Accessibility in iOS and iPadOS 15 is a new Background Sounds feature that plays relaxing audio tracks to help you stay calm and focused, and to block out background ...

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Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

Welcome to science world! Now, most people will associate waves with water, but water isn't the only thing that travels in waves. No, sound also travels in waves. So when you hit something it vibrates ...

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