Ears are built to listen to sounds from the world around us, but for some people, the sound comes from within. Tinnitus ...

A sound hits your ear, and before you’ve had a single conscious thought, your body has already reacted. Your skin prickles, ...

The Hum remains an unusual reminder that despite advances in acoustics, neuroscience and environmental monitoring, there are ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) study published in Science has analysed more than 116,000 recordings of 3000 bird species. The ...

You use a flashlight, looking for a rainbow-colored glint in the darkness. Now, imagine 10 other people in the cave with you, using different-colored flashlights at the same time. Suddenly, you can no ...

Birdsong carries meaning across open space, helping birds attract mates, defend territory and communicate with rivals. While ...

The new study, which involved an analysis of around 116,000 songs from 3,160 species, revealed that the astonishing variety ...

After all, the focus is typically on the general frequency response, pickup pattern, build quality, and sound. Audio Technica's AT5040 ticks all the boxes of a typical high-end phantom-powered ...

Sperm whales communicate using short sequences of clicks known as codas, which they exchange while coordinating within their groups. Scientists have long classified these sequences using the number of ...

Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice? Read more in the Antiviral series I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to ...

If you scroll through social media for long enough, you’ll probably find videos claiming that listening to songs tuned to “A 432Hz” can provide an amazing sense of calmness or healing. It’s even ...

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone ...