Bose Corporation to build manufacturing facility in Malaysia

Last Updated: Monday, May 7, 2012, 16:46

American audio equipment major Bose Corporation, founded by Indian-origin Amar Bose, will build a manufacturing facility in Malaysia, marking its first big venture into Asia.

`Mystifying` Stonehenge may have been designed for sound

Last Updated: Thursday, April 19, 2012, 19:28

Researchers have suggested that Stonehenge could have been built with acoustics in mind like a Greek or Roman theatre.

Plants react to sound, make noises: Oz research

Last Updated: Tuesday, April 10, 2012, 15:34

New Australian research has claimed to have discovered that plants appear to react to sounds and may even make clicking noises to communicate with each other.

Sound of music once more - on Indian TV channels

Last Updated: Monday, April 2, 2012, 13:11

Melody is slowly making a comeback on TV thanks to new channels that are offering Bollywood numbers from different eras 24X7.

Skydiver aims to break sound barrier

Last Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012, 19:39

Fearless Felix” Baumgartner hopes to hurtle toward Earth at supersonic speed from a record 37 kilometres up, breaking the sound barrier with only his body.

Blue whales can hear sounds in wider range

Last Updated: Sunday, March 4, 2012, 12:37

Blue whales can be affected even by sounds that are outside their vocalisation range.

Aerosmith to have a vintage sound on 14th studio album

Last Updated: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 16:15

Rock band Aerosmith are going to have a "vintage sound" on their 14th studio album, says band`s frontman Steven Tyler.

What sound means to squids

Last Updated: Sunday, February 26, 2012, 18:59

Marine biologists have started prying on squids’ world to find out how these creatures hear and how they respond to sounds in the ocean.

Stonehenge may have been inspired by ‘sound illusion’

Last Updated: Friday, February 17, 2012, 19:31

An archaeologist has claimed that these iconic stones were inspired by an extraordinary hallucination.

Austrian skydiver plans to break sound barrier in free fall

Last Updated: Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 09:04

An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon high up in the stratosphere.

`The Sound of Old Rooms` is nostalgia for present: Sandeep Ray

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2012, 18:58

In `Kokkho-Poth` (The Sound of Old Rooms), shot over a span of 20 years, director Sandeep Ray delves deep into the cultural consciousness of Kolkata through the life of teacher-poet Sarthak Roychowdhury.