But as sound supervisor, sound designer and re-recording mixer on director Kathryn Bigelow’s acclaimed Iraq war thriller “The Hurt Locker,” due out this week on DVD, he did exactly that.

A fascinating new study has shed light on the phenomenon of using sound for pain relief. Using state-of-the-art brain-imaging techniques an international team of researchers has uncovered the ...

“ The Hurt Locker,” Kathryn Bigelow’s incendiary masterpiece, is available on Blu-ray. Listen to the nonbooms — they sound like muted implosions — yourself.