The Caltech scientist was revered for his work on the neurobiology of birdsong and owls’ ability to home in on their prey.

An experimental hearing aid differentiates speakers and monitors the wearer’s brain activity to amplify the one she is trying to listen to.

From disastrous scientific setbacks to the upending of scientific dogma and the end of a 40-year search for a protein

Eight environmental groups took the legal measure in an effort to protect North Atlantic right whales and other marine organisms.

After a decades-long pursuit, researchers have confirmed the identity of the pore of the mechanotransduction channel in vertebrates’ inner ear hair cells.

Researchers have been using ultrasound to control brain activity, but studies in mice and guinea pigs show it also stimulates the auditory system, presenting a confounder for direct neural stimulation.

The Atlantic has been free of intense air-gun blasts to probe for oil and gas for 30 years, and researchers fear for endangered North Atlantic right whales and other animals.

Researchers deliver small interfering RNAs loaded into nanoparticles into the ears of adult guinea pigs to regenerate hair cells damaged by noise.

Barbastelle bats trick moths with muffled echolocation calls.