DENVER — The soundtrack of a city can be stressful – especially during rush hour. “It’s pretty out of control," said Robin Tinghitella. “If you’ve ever tried to drive up I-70, you know how crazy ...

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...

A new study shows that the mating behaviour of crickets is significantly affected by traffic noise and other man-made sounds - a finding that could have implications for the future success of the ...

Most people have suffered through noise pollution, whether it's the thumping of a jackhammer or a screaming siren. Defined by the EPA as "unwanted or disturbing sound," noise pollution is predicted to ...

We humans tend to spread and frolic about wherever we please, a development that has been found to harm animals’ environments and health, and therefore ultimately our own. That may be the effect on ...

In October 2017, the Associated Press published an audio recording of what the U.S. government, at the time, claimed was a “sonic attack” launched at American diplomats stationed in Havana, Cuba. The ...

There are some trends you can see coming. Hybrid cars, the iPod revolution and designer coffee bistros, for example. But never, in our most fevered dreams, would we have spotted the latest Bay Area ...

It's Thursday and another chance to fire off a few up or down thumbs about some of news developments in our neck of the woods and elsewhere: [THUMBS UP] We're not going to say we love the transfer ...

MILFORD --Growing up in Hyderabad, a large city in the southern part of India, Rakesh Kallem remembers skipping school to go play pick-up games of cricket. "Once in a while we'd get caught," he says ...

Ask most people about crickets and you’ll probably hear that they’re all pretty much the same: just little insects that jump and chirp. But there are actually dozens of different species of field ...

New research has found that the mating behavior of crickets is significantly affected by traffic noise and other human-made sounds. When human-made noise pollution was present, the females didn't take ...