At a small number of beaches around the world, dry sand actually makes noise underfoot, caused by friction between silica-rich grains. These “singing sand” beaches exist on every continent except ...

LIFT A SHELL from the sand to your ear and everyone knows you can hear the sea. But listen carefully enough and you can hear shells in the sand too. Sand, it turns out, has a signature sound of its ...

Hans Zimmer knows what you expect a sci-fi film to sound like. Between John Williams' iconic Star Wars score and the use of "The Blue Danube" in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the template was set long ago.