When you finally get home after a hard day’s work, the whistle of a stove-top kettle can be a truly comforting sound. Until now, scientists have been unable to explain what makes the noise. But a ...

The source and mechanism of a whistling kettle has never been fully described scientifically; acknowledging the vibrations made by the build-up of steam escaping through two metal spout plates is ...

An Indian aero acoustics scientist has finally worked out why and how a kettle actually whistles–a problem which has puzzled scientists for more than 100 years. An Indian aero acoustics scientist has ...