Ambience (sic) is a popular sleep sound app for Android. It features a clean, simple UI along with a variety of calming sounds. They include things like rain, waves, crickets, and even some music. It ...

For people who love discovering new sounds, there’s an intriguing new site that collects soundscapes from around the world. Users can create their own specialized playlists of sounds available on ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

If you struggle to find the focus to accomplish whatever task is at hand, you may want to explore using audio as a way to help you concentrate. Now, we're not suggesting listening to catchy pop tunes, ...

When we open our ears to the marvels of natural soundscapes, we experience the energies of the world in a unique way—and begin to understand the mysteries behind them. But when we habitually ignore ...

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...

Somewhere along the long, winding road of evolution, a bunch of genes got together in a conference room and decided it would probably be most optimal for human survival if we were forced to take in ...

Have you ever listened to a recording of birdsong? Or ocean waves? The howling of wolves, or thunder and rain? If you have, did you ever wonder whether nature was getting any compensation for ...

Think about your garden. What comes to mind? Is it the color of a blooming poppy, the green sprouts of the first beans coming up? Are all your thoughts visual or do any of them include sounds? Today, ...