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How A Record Player Makes Music

By: Ethan Chai, Journalist

There are many parts to a record player, that let it play music. First there are basic elements essential to any record player, such as a platter, a needle which is called a stylus, an arm that the stylus is attached to, etc.

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How Sound Pollution Affects Whales

By: Rory Bierhanzl, Jounalist

Underwater noise Pollution can affect almost all marine life, causing stress, permanent hearing loss, or even some species resorting to leaving the area entirely, causing unnatural migration patterns that disrupt ecosystems. Noise pollution can not only disrupt a whale's lifestyle and living practices, but sound pollution can also hurt and cripple whales, due to their sensitivity to noise.

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The History Of Phonographs

By: Vaibhav Saravanan, Journalist

A phonograph is a record player, it has many names such as the gramophone, record player, and turntable. When users insert a phonograph record, the machine plays music. Let's see how this machine has evolved over time.

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Energy From Sound Waves

By: Salar Nasimov, Journalist

Energy can be harnessed from many sources, including the sun, wind, and water. However, a lesser-known source of energy is sound waves.

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Shepard’s Tone

By: Jorge Laboy-Bulancea, Journalist

Shepard's Tone is an auditory phenomenon that has captivated both scientists and artists since its discovery by cognitive scientist Roger Shepard in the 1960s. It is an auditory illusion that creates the perception of a continuous ascent or descent in pitch, despite there being no actual change in pitch.

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White Noise: How It Helps Sleep

By: Mina Woods-Corwin, Journalist

White noise is something our brain can focus on instead of getting distracted by random noises. Often, loud noises aren't what wake people up, but the change in sound.

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Audio Mixing

By: Skyla Tran, Journalist

To put it simply, audio mixing is creating an audio (or a lot of the time, music) by putting tracks of sounds together to create a single stereo track. But that's just a simple explanation.

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Noise Pollution

By: Evan Nanthavong, Journalist

As humans are going throughout their day they probably hear hundreds of different noises. Nowadays, we have machinery and devices that produce a large amount of sound. Have you ever wondered what harmful...