Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...
Chill out and silence the sounds of your environment with the sounds of rain, the ocean and more. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac/W.carter/Wikimedia Commons Working in an office or in the city, ...
As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...
Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...
A mysterious sound heard booming from deep under the ocean waves has finally been traced to a fascinating source. First recorded in 2014 in the west Pacific, the "biotwang" is actually the call of the ...
Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world’s murky marine environments. Reporting their ...
When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism. One summer day when we were kids, my brother and I ...
World Oceans Week is an opportune time for planetariums to take on a meaningful role by educating and inspiring communities to build the link between astronomy and the ocean. That’s why planetariums ...
Scientists are using underwater microphones to study beaked whales, the ocean’s most elusive mammals. Echolocation clicks ...