What do nerves sound like?

Wednesday 24th Apr 2019, 9.00am

Our nerves don’t stop talking. They’re 24-7 communication systems for our bodies. But does all this cellular chitter-chatter actually make a noise?

For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to figure out how exactly our nervous system relays messages. Part of the secret may lie in a sound wave! On this episode of the Big Questions Podcast we are asking: What do nerves sound like?

To find out we visited Shamit Shrivastava, Experimental Physicist at the University of Oxford…