As transportation networks expand and urban areas grow, noise from sources such as vehicle engines is spreading into remote places. Human-caused noise has consequences for wildlife, entire ecosystems ...
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Shipping is one of the main sources of human-made sound in the ocean. Credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images In the early days of the pandemic, shipping activity around the world plummeted, ...
Here at Boing Boing, we've discussed misophonia - also known as "sound rage" or, as this article in the journal PLOS ONE (Public Library of Science) describes it, "a disorder characterized by a ...
Sophia Anner performs dissections to preserve and weigh reproductive tissues of crickets. This is one measure of reproductive investment researchers assessed in crickets exposed to human-generated ...
Human brains do something peculiar when a chimpanzee screams or hoots. Instead of treating those sounds as generic animal ...