Summer is coming, and soon beaches will be full of the sounds of people having fun: splashing in waves, thwacking kadima balls, thumping sand into castle shapes. If you can find a quieter spot of ...

Back in the Midwest, in the summers I listened to cicadas calling and crickets chirping — sounds that don’t happen here in Southeast Alaska. We hear mosquitoes and bees buzzing, of course, but that’s ...

Sharks were long thought to be silent predators of the deep. Nope! Scientists have recorded the first known recording of the sounds sharks make. Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like the theme from ...

Look at that mountain! Imagine you are standing at the base of a volcano looking up. You were told that the volcano isn’t going to erupt anytime soon, but you notice a little bit of smoke (or is that ...

New research shows that listeners perceive repeated environmental sounds as music. Water dripping. A shovel scraping across rock. These sounds don't seem very musical. Yet new research at the ...