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Theories about the sound's origins included an undiscovered sea creature. By 2011, NOAA scientists concluded the sound was the cracking of an ice shelf during an icequake. In the summer of 1997, ...

The ocean is teeming with the chirps, “boings” and grunts of underwater creatures. An international team of scientists are building a Global Library of Underwater Biological Sounds, dubbed "Glubs," by ...

The urge to explore the cosmos has always been an irrepressible part of humankind's curiosity. But while venturing into space ...

Professor Steve Simpson monitors the sounds of biodiversity on reefs in the Maldives. In the Maldives, Professor Steve Simpson has devised a system that uses the sounds of the reef to help restore ...

Biochemist Martin Gruebele regularly dons a pair of headphones in his lab at the University of Illinois. But instead of music, he listens to a cacophony of clinking, jarring noises — as if a group of ...

We are surrounded by sounds creating a soundscape just as the land and buildings create landscapes. They are distinctive. The sirens and traffic of Manhattan, the silence punctuated by honking geese ...