In a world where everyone wears headphones, it’s curious that binaural audio is so rare. The technology can create a 3D soundscape more realistic than the best home theater set-up, and yet hardly any ...

This Halloween is Fright Night on Radio 4. Two brilliant new adaptations of cult horror classics will be broadcast: Ring, based on the Japanese novel and well known in film adaptations, and The Stone ...

Listening to audio with binaural beats may benefit your mental health and promote creativity and focus. When you hear two tones — one in each ear — that are slightly different in frequency, your brain ...

For as long as she can remember, Jessica Trimberger has lived with anxiety. “I find it hard to be motivated and am generally jittery,” she says. Trimberger, who owns a company that makes small-batch ...

On a crisp afternoon late last year, I made my way to Manhattan’s Upper East Side to meet Edgar Choueiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University. Choueiri also ...

Binaural beat therapy is an emerging form of sound wave therapy. It makes use of the fact that the right and left ear each receive a slightly different frequency tone, yet the brain perceives these as ...

Have you heard of binaural beats? It’s a technique that’s been around for a while, but recently is getting a lot of attention for its ability to lower stress and improve sleep, as well as to improve ...

The aural environment can be just as beautiful, or just as scary as any 3D environment. The predominance of surround-sound and binaural headphones make sound even more crucial to any interactive ...