If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, what does it sound like? Well, if you’re artists Bartholomäus Traubeck, you just slam the trunk on a record player to find out.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stand of aspen trees Researchers have recorded the sounds of the world's largest tree, a 13-million-pound (6 million kilograms) ...

Foresters and researchers are using sound to look inside living trees. A new study presents methods for use of sonic tomography, which measures wood decay by sending sound waves through tree trunks.

image: Tomogram showing areas of wood decay in a tree with an irregularly shaped trunk, based on sonic tomography with the PiCUS 3 Sonic Tomograph. view more Living trees can rot from the inside out, ...