University of Liverpool provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. There has been a lot of research into how seabirds choose their flight paths and find food. They seem to use ...

The unknown crackling could be the sound of distant thunderstorms, falling meteors, or turbulence. Listen to the sounds a balloon hears 12 miles above Earth: from ocean waves to volcanic eruptions.

There’s a cacophony of acoustic signals below the range of human hearing, many quite intense, that you can pick up with the right “ears.” (Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Along the coast, waves break with a ...