Taos Hum

There are approximately equal percentages of male and female hearers. Age does appear to be a factor, with middle-aged people more likely to hear it.

The Taos Hum is a mysterious low-frequency noise reported by residents and visitors of Taos, New Mexico. Described as a faint droning sound, it is often compared to the hum of a distant diesel engine. The sound has been reported since the early 1990s, although similar hums have been noted in other parts of the world. Despite extensive investigations, the source of the Taos Hum remains elusive.

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The popular preprint server arXiv.org, where physicists, mathematicians and computer scientists routinely upload manuscripts to publicly share their findings before peer review, now holds more than 1 million research articles.

ArXiv (pronounced archive) is a public server repository that hosts electronic e-prints of research output primarily from the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

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