Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...

Environmental sounds, from chirping birds to rustling trees, can tell humans a lot about the world -- if they listen. So says Bryan Pijanowski, an associate professor of forestry and natural resources ...

Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...

Smartwatches have become very common and can offer people a private way of getting notifications about their surroundings, health alerts, phone calls, or package deliveries. Researchers at the ...

The Long Island Sound — where every summer excess nitrogen pushes oxygen levels below critical thresholds — will benefit from 41 new antipollution projects, with nearly half of them earmarked for New ...

White noise machines help block out environmental sounds, which can help some people sleep. Some people also use white noise machines to help them focus or to soothe infants. White noise machines emit ...

The way that speech processing differs from the processing of other sounds has long been a major open question in human neuroscience. Researchers have endeavored to answer this by investigating brain ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In episode 44, host Erik Bascome is joined by SILive/Advance Science and climate reporter Joseph Ostapiuk to discuss various environmental projects and initiatives impacting the ...

When the pandemic hit, the partners behind Maverick, a local bar in Monterrey, Mexico, found their business empty. In response, Oscar Romo and René Cárdenas adapted to a new model many bars have ...