This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Jeff DelViscio. Today: part two of our three-part sound escape series to the Amazon rain forest. In this episode, we’re going into the dark. Make ...

Once the last glimmer of light slipped below the horizon, the east marsh in Vero Beach came alive with the sounds of all of nature’s night creatures, as if in sync with a biological time clock. As we ...

Just as each bird has a unique call, so does each frog. The call of the tiny boreal chorus frog sounds like someone running a thumbnail over the teeth of a pocket comb. An American toad emits a long ...