Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...
When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. By Bishop Sand March 20 at 8:00 a.m. Listen to a dawn chorus from ...
A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...
From Indonesia to Wisconsin, farmers all over the world struggle with a huge problem: pests. On top of that, it's tough for farmers to identify... How listening to the sounds of insects can help ...
Bird-watching—and, necessarily, listening—has exploded in popularity in recent years. But put your ears a little closer to the ground, and you might hear a quieter but just as potent kind of song ...
It's a noisy place out there in the backyard, even after you turn off the mower and the leaf blower, silence the dog and the neighborhood kids, and just stand and listen. It can be a veritable ...
Long exposure combining images taken at the side of the Po River in San Matteo delle Chiaviche, Italy. (Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) As summer rolls around, ...
On a muggy June morning, Emily Bick winds through a field of knee-high corn, just north of Madison, Wisconsin. It feels like that quiet, anticipation-filled moment before a concert: Tech people are ...