If you're lying awake on a summer night and a noise from outside is keeping you up, chances are the creature responsible is ...

What’s that sound? Is it the eerie sound of an alien spaceship landing nearby? A white-noise soundtrack for people who have trouble falling asleep? Or is it the distinctive chorus of millions of ...

The "wall of sound" created by this year's cicada invasion may help people with tinnitus. This is according to Fatima Husain, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology ...

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...

For four days, a 64-year-old woman heard strange sounds in her left ear, including beating, clicking and rustling noises. The incessant sounds caused her to have problems sleeping. She ended up at an ...

ATLANTA — The emergence of billions of cicadas is upon us and in some parts of the Southeast, cicadas are already starting to appear. Some law enforcement agencies are asking people to keep in mind ...

Claudio Mello was conducting research in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest about 20 years ago when he heard a curious sound. It was high-pitched and reedy, like a pin scratching metal. A cricket? A tree frog?

It's a noisy place out there in the backyard, even after you turn off the mower and the leaf blower, silence the dog and the neighborhood kids, and just stand and listen. It can be a veritable ...

For two summers in a rugged corner of Idaho’s Pioneer Mountains, the roar of rushing white water filled the air. But where the loud sounds prevailed, only gentle streams flowed by. These phantom ...

Bernard Lohr has received funding from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In the cloud forests of South America, amid the ...

May 24 (UPI) --Loud noises, whether from big boat engines or freeway traffic, can disrupt the communication and navigation abilities of many animals -- and they are known to alter their movement and ...