Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have evolved unique oral and aural adaptations. Understanding them better could ...

When the snow settles, melts and refreezes, the sound-dampening quality of the snow will change. As the surface of the snow ...

As it turned out, we learned something new about sound in the ocean every day as we looked ... But Chapman is relatively certain that the nature of the recordings he and his team have analyzed ...

then records the echoes of that sound off various distant objects. This method is useful for mapping the ocean floor and detecting underwater vessels, such as submarines. The sounds emitted by ...

Show more Float away with Icelandic composer and pianist Ólafur Arnalds for an hour-long musical journey into an ocean of calm. This week, Ólafur taps into the sounds of the sea and shares music ...