The residents of California’s Santa Monica Bay have some rather noisy neighbors—and they’re not happy about it. That is the conclusion of a new study which shows that blue whales feeding off the coast ...

Researchers on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, recently discovered the oldest known recordings of whale sounds and believe the ...

Our gentle leviathans may cherish quietude, but silence is killing humans—no matter how much they babble. Koogler’s portrait of Pacific Northwesterners unfolds in a handful of group scenes and several ...

Animals are noisy. And their noises can travel a long way. But making sounds can be a double-edged sword: it can help them communicate, sometimes over long distances, but it can also reveal them to ...

The other day, an article in Popular Mechanics (of all things) caught my attention. It described how scientists are making ...