The forest may seem quiet, but every call, chirp, and sound from wildlife carries a message. Discover how scientists use ...

Before batteries lose power, fail suddenly, or burst into flames, they tend to produce faint sounds over time that provide a signature of the degradation processes going on within their structure. But ...

A listener responded to our invitation to send recordings of backyard wildlife with audio of a spooky bird screech. An expert at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology helped solve the mystery. OK, that's not ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Today, we know the answer is a resounding yes -- thanks to a bio-acoustic monitoring system that uses artificial ...