Get nervous when you hear those pinging sounds on a plane? These are nothing to worry about, but some do have "a little bit of an impact" on passengers, according to Kyle Koukol, a 29-year-old airline ...

How do our brains create meaning from the sounds around us? That is the question at the heart of a new book from neuroscientist Nina Kraus, called Of Sound Mind.

As the sounds that I'm making right now enter your ear, your brain is effortlessly turning those air vibrations into a sentence that has meaning. Now, if we start to distort my voice, your brain has a ...