Using two dimensionless fundamental constants, an international team of physicists has calculated the fastest possible speed of sound in condensed phases...
Physicists from the University of Glasgow and the University of Arizona have experimentally verified a half-century-old theory that began as speculation...
A new study shows that greater severity of vision loss is associated with increased auditory judgments of distance and room size; on average, participants...
Adding feline-specific music to veterinary offices as environmental enrichment could provide great value to the cat’s welfare in the clinic, to the client’s...
Dogs are able to listen to different people saying the same word and recognize it as the same word, ignoring the differences between speakers, and can...
A duo of ornithologists from the United States and Brazil has recorded the loudest bird song (up to 125.4 db) ever documented, made by males of the white...
An international team of scientists sent high-frequency sound waves across a modified semiconductor device to direct the behavior of a single electron,...
A team of scientists at MIT has developed a system for converting protein sequences into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Then, reversing...
According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, gray seals (Halichoerus grypus) can copy human speech and songs using the same sound...
Yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) can use their antennae to detect sounds that are at least 32 feet (10 m) away, according to a new study published...
On December 1, 2018, NASA’s InSight lander captured a haunting low rumble caused by vibrations from the Martian wind, estimated to be blowing between...
Toothed whales — apex predators varying in size from 40-kg porpoises to 50-ton sperm whales — use narrow beams of high intensity sound to echolocate...
A team of researchers from Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Exeter, UK, has created the soundtrack of the Martian sunrise captured by NASA’s...
A team of researchers from Duke and Rockefeller Universities has found that individual neurons can encode information about multiple stimuli simultaneously,...
Duke University Professor Jennifer Groh and co-authors have found that keeping the head still but shifting the eyes to one side or the other sparks vibrations...
A team of scientists at the College of Engineering (CoE) in Pune, India, is developing an efficient method for monitoring and recognizing bird species...
A new study by University of Maryland’s Professor Patrick Kanold and co-authors is the first to identify a mechanism that could explain an early link...
