Human speech and language are highly complex, consisting of a large number of sounds. The human larynx (voice box) has acquired the capability to create...
Scientists from Boise State University and elsewhere have tested 252 genera from most families of large-bodied moths. Their results show that ultrasound-producing...
Sound, including music and noise, can relieve pain in humans, but the underlying neural mechanisms are unknown. In new research, scientists from the United...
The BirdNET app is a free bird sound identification app for Android and iOS that includes over 3,000 bird species. Ornithologists hope this app will reduce...
In new research, a team of scientists from the Ohio State University acquainted 49 frog-eating bats with a series of ringtones that attracted their attention,...
The flexible, thin-film loudspeaker, developed by MIT researchers, weighs only 2 g, is 120 microns thick, and can generate high-quality sound no matter...
Fiona Backhouse and her colleagues from Western Sydney University, the University of Wollongong and the Australian National University have investigated...
NASA’s Perseverance rover first recorded Martian sounds on February 19, 2021, the day after its arrival. These sounds fall within the human audible spectrum,...
Hearing is a fundamental sense of many animals, including all mammals, birds, some reptiles, amphibians, fish, and arthropods. The auditory organs of these...
Fabrics, by virtue of their composition and structure, have traditionally been used as acoustic absorbers. Inspired by the auditory system, a team of engineers...
Researchers at RMIT University have used high frequency MHz-order mechanostimulation to trigger differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells from various...
A new study shows that the hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), an iconic African megaherbivore for which little is known about social communication,...
New research led by Cornell University scientists shows that sound production appeared in the ray-finned fishes (clade Actinopterygii) circa 155 million...
A team of scientists from the University of Salzburg and the University of Basel has presented sleeping volunteers with their own names and unfamiliar...
The magnetosphere of Ganymede, the Jupiter’s largest moon, is a source of electric and magnetic radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Waves...
An international team of researchers has documented the unique vibroacoustic signals the eastern honeybees (Apis cerana) use to alert members of their...
NASA’s Perseverance rover carries two microphones which are directly recording sounds on Mars, including wind gusts, rover wheels crunching over gravel,...
An international team of scientists led by Flinders University has found evidence of prenatal auditory learning in embryos of three vocal learning species...
A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind has...
An acoustic amplifier developed by Sandia National Laboratories researchers measures 0.5 mm2 (0.0008 square inches), and is more than 10 times more effective...
