Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...

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 ...

People choose where to live based on all sorts of data: Price, public transit, proximity to pizza chains. But noise is tougher to measure. And since sound is pretty much invisible, you might not know ...

If you are looking for a way to experience nature, a group in the United Kingdom has collected woodland sounds from around the world into one unique map. Wild Rumpus, a group that produces outdoor ...

Those big ol' orange thingies you see on our Google-enabled interactive sound map are the latest updates to the audio-geography project we've been working on lately. (The previously posted voices are ...

If you know that a well-known brand of smoke alarm sounds identical to a rare parrot, you may well be a fan of Chris Mitchell, CEO of Audio Analytic. His Cambridge-based company augments consumer ...

Ever wanted to escape the big city hustle and just find a quiet place to sit and rest for a minute? A new project called Chatty Maps might help you find that ideal spot. The project aims to map the ...

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