When Brood X cicadas emerge this summer, it will be to a world drastically altered from the one their ancestors knew.

We're pretty good at discerning different emotions that underlie screams. Except for happy screams, which, without context, we may mistake for fear.

Researchers have come up with a new skill for smart speakers: tracking the minute motion of your heartbeat while you sit in front of it.

New research shows how noise from natural gas pipeline compressors affects the reproductive success of some songbirds.

Humpback whales don't learn songs from other whales. But what they're doing is "actually more impressive," says Eduardo Mercado.

Weddell seals are making all kinds of noise under the Antarctic ice, but at sound frequencies humans can't hear. Listen to an adjusted sample.

Just 10 decibels more daytime neighborhood noise is associated with 36% higher odds of mild cognitive impairment and 30% higher odds of Alzheimer's disease.

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."