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In a TikTok video posted last month, creator Rachel Eppley shows herself lying down on her couch to take a brief nap. Then, she introduces her audience to binaural beats. “In case your mom didn’t ...

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 ...

Many people with migraine experience sound sensitivity during or before an episode. Most people, in these cases, find that avoiding noise can help ease migraine pain. Still, this may not occur for ...

If listening to ethereal, almost otherworldly, sounds for a few minutes every day while you study and work could make your brain more creative and less prone to anxiety, wouldn’t we all do it? One ...

When you hear two slightly mismatched sounds, an odd thing can happen. You start to hear a third sound, a rhythmic beat that does not exist. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself, here. This strange ...

When two tones of slightly different frequencies are played in separate ears simultaneously (usually through headphones), the human brain perceives the creation of a new, third tone, whose frequency ...

You might have seen online or heard about “binaural beats”, which have been described as “digital drugs”. The perceptual phenomenon of binaural beats was discovered by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove in 1841 ...

Something weird happens to your brain when you play a steady tone at two slightly different frequencies. If one headphone speaker plays a low, constant drone at, for example, 400 Hertz and the other ...

Let the beat drop...your anxiety levels. We’re not talking about any old beats, but ones some therapists are using as a form of sound-wave therapy to help their patients combat anxiety. They’re called ...

A binaural beat is an illusion created by your brain when you listen to two tones with slightly different frequencies at the same time, one in each ear. Some early research suggests that listening to ...