Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

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Consider, for your listening pleasure, the next frontier in sonic miracles: so-called “audible enclaves,” where only you can hear a sound without disturbing anyone else in open space — no headphones ...

What if you could listen to music or a podcast without headphones or earbuds and without disturbing anyone around you? Or have a private conversation in public without other people hearing you? Newly ...

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A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

Over 100 stores will shutter amid Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Quiksilver, Billabong, and Volcom, known for their surf and skate products, are closing stores in the United States and Hawaii. Former license ...

Some beloved beachwear brands are going out of business — Billabong, Quiksilver and Volcom brick-and-mortar stores are set to close. California-based Liberated Brands, which operates the stores, will ...

All locations for Billabong, Quiksilver, Volcom and more are set to close after parent company Liberated Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, NBC News reported. More than 100 apparel ...

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) – Several longtime surfwear/skating retailers are planning to close up shop in the United States after their operator, Liberated Brands, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. Liberated ...

Liberated Brands filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend and is looking to shutter its U.S. retail stores where it sold brands like Quiksilver, Billabong and Volcom. The company ...