sound

New insights into the functionality of nonhuman sound may help us conserve nature and protect ourselves from excessive noise.

Recent findings buck the traditional idea that embryos are passive agents and instead suggest that by tuning into vibrations, organisms can better prepare to enter the outside world.

Bridge spiders “outsource” their hearing by building webs that double as acoustic arrays, allowing them to perceive sounds from great distances.

Scientists from MIT reveal the hidden music in spiderwebs.

By analyzing how fin whale calls bounce off the seafloor, scientists can recreate ocean crust layers.

The tropical net-casting spider Deinopis spinosa joins several other arachnid species that can hear sounds from afar without the help of a web, or even ears—an ability that aids its unique hunting tactics.

Many plants reflect ultrasonic waves, thereby attracting the pollinators, but one cactus takes a different approach.

In a virtual reality experiment, participants recovered faster from a small electric shock when they could smell natural scents than when they could smell urban odors.

Changes in the auditory environment as a result of herbivory could influence how animals communicate, and may have implications for sound-based monitoring of species.

Drastic dietary changes during the agricultural revolution altered the configuration of the human bite, paving the way for new sounds in spoken language, a new study finds.

Biologists say a sound suspected to have caused headaches, nausea, and possible brain damage among diplomats is actually of insects chirping.

A whole-genome analysis of people who experience color when they listen to sounds points to a handful of genes involved in neural development.

The cells are crucial to detecting emphasis, sarcasm, and uptalk in human conversation.

At 100 sites around North America, field recorders are set to record natures’ response to the blotting out of the sun on Monday.