Our ability to focus on one voice in a noisy room is an example of auditory attention. New research finds commonalities in birds.

The regular sounds of sports will be missing when they return after COVID-19 hiatuses. How will silence or artificial crowds change the game for viewers?

"This quiet period is the longest and most prominent global anthropogenic seismic noise reduction on record."

Next time you hear someone cough or sneeze, you should probably leave the diagnosis to the doctor, according to a new study.

A new app called Chipper can help birders and citizen scientists share birdsong recordings with scientists.

After 17 years underground, cicadas will return by the millions this summer. Here, an expert breaks down their life cycle and why they emerge when they do.

Male treefrogs throw off predators teaming up with others to sing out their mating calls in quick succession, researchers say.

Materials made from tapered chains of spherical beads could help dampen high-pitched sounds, say theoretical physicists.

Throat singing produces two tones at the same time—a low rumble and a high whistle-like tone. Now researchers know how it works.

Researchers have used 100 recordings of a cappella singing to better understand why the brain decodes music and speech in separate hemispheres.