Articles for tag: acoustic geology, desert science, natural phenomena, singing sand dunes, sound of sand

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Scientists Discover Singing Sand Dunes

Suhail Ahmed

On a windless afternoon, a dune can suddenly begin to hum – low, steady, and eerily musical. For centuries, travelers wrote about this strange desert voice, but the physics behind it remained a puzzle that slipped through scientists’ fingers like, well, sand. Now, a wave of field measurements and lab experiments is revealing how friction ...