Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Locals grew up with it, but it's always a surprise to visitors and new residents: Some sand on Florida beaches will squeak when ...

At a small number of beaches around the world, dry sand actually makes noise underfoot, caused by friction between silica-rich grains. These “singing sand” beaches exist on every continent except ...

Singing sands, a centuries-old mystery, are explained by physics as dry dunes emit audible sounds when grains slide. Uniformly sized grains create synchronized vibrations, producing sustained musical ...

A US woman living in Australia has been left baffled by an “insane” noise she heard while on a beach on the Gold Coast. Tate Duane, from California, who goes by the TikTok handle “twaynne” has racked ...