Robotic Dancing Birds
Robotic birds help reveal which aspects of a pair’s coordinated song and dance are most important to an avian audience.
Right Ear Advantage
The right ear listens and comprehends slightly better than the left.
Dolphin Click Algorithms
Machine learning algorithms like those used by social media companies can classify dolphin echolocation clicks.
Space Music
Turning the Voyager spacecraft particle detector into a musical instrument.
Bat Vocal Learning
Fruit bats learn their calls from the crowd of bats around them.
Pumpkin Toadlet Hearing
Tiny orange frogs called pumpkin toadlets can’t hear their own calls.
Bats vs. Buildings
Scientists discover why bats fly into tall buildings.
Human Echolocation Sounds
How do some blind people use echolocation to get around?
Humans & Honeyguides
African honeyhunters use a special call to get birds to lead them to the location of hives full of nutritious honey.
Elephant Seal Calls
Elephant seals recognize each other by rhythm and pitch of their calls.
Running Injury Acoustics
Scientists are measuring the acoustic properties of the shockwaves produced as our feet strike the ground as we run, helping to explain why so many runners get injured.
Drumming Cockatoos
Researchers discover that cockatoos use sticks and seed pods to drum out rhythms on tree limbs.
Noisy Fish
The loud noises made by spawning croakers could help fisheries manage their sensitive populations in Mexican waters.
Audio Sheets
Thin, flexible transducers could lead to newspapers that can hear and talk.
Human Noise in the Wilderness
Human-produced noise is adding significantly to the ambience in national parks.
Contagious Parrot Laughter
Rare New Zealand parrots start playing spontaneously when they hear certain calls.
Endangered Crow Calls
What happens to the calls of an endangered bird species when its only remaining members live in captivity?
Road Birds
Playing birdsongs near roads can entice birds to repopulate abandoned habitat.
Birdsong Warm-Ups
Songbirds, like people, may need to warm up their voices before they sing.
Coconut Rhinoceros Beetles
In a race against time, scientists attempt to stop an insect invader by using its own sounds.
Deafness & Brain Structure
The brain architecture for processing sound is the same in deaf people as in hearing people.