The ocean is anything but quiet with animals making a variety of unique sounds, but what happens when the ocean gets too loud? Read more!

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, ...

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 ...

The founder of an erotic audio company claims listening to the sound of crashing waves can help train the brain to have better orgasms. Gina Gutierrez, 31, made the kinky claim at the TED2022 ...

A report revealed that Earth has already passed one of the first catastrophic environmental tipping points: the large-scale ...

The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

Whales and other mammals rely on a balance of underwater sounds to survive. Climate change could be throwing off that fragile equilibrium. Adding to that list of dangers, a new study suggests that ...

Learn how Hawaiian monk seals produce 25 distinct underwater calls, and may even combine them to communicate.

The ocean is a noisy place, buzzing with sounds created by wildlife, weather, seasons and earthquakes. For sea animals, these sounds form their natural “soundscape”, but a new article in Science shows ...