"The Astonishing Revelation: Silence Can Be Heard, Scientists Confirm"

A team of philosophers and psychologists at Johns Hopkins University conducted a study to determine whether silence can be perceived as a sound. Using auditory illusions, they found that participants' brains reacted to silence in the same way they did to noise, suggesting that silence is truly perceived and not merely inferred. The study's findings challenge the long-standing debate on whether silence can be heard, providing evidence that our sense of hearing can detect the absence of sound.