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Nature’s most impressive conversations happen at frequencies we cannot hear. While humans perceive sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, many animals have evolved to communicate using infrasound. These ...

Scientists have just found a new way to track the uncontrolled reentry of falling space junk. As they punch into the ...

Earthquake sensors can detect sonic booms generated by reentering space debris to help track the potentially dangerous ...

PMC has introduced its all-new Main Monitor models at NAMM 2026, marking its most significant advance in monitor design in ...

Like stretch marks left on skin that expanded too quickly or cracks embedded in freezing ice, cosmic strings are artifacts of ...

The method exploits the acoustic shockwaves produced when a returning object travels faster than the speed of sound. As these sonic booms strike the ground, they ...

How do we hear, and how does hearing affect how we play music? These questions are central to the work of Nikolas Alejandro ...

Biologists and engineers have joined forces to build a new robot bat that’s helping us understand how real bats use ...

A new study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute used a robot to mimic common big-eared bats' echolocation skills ...

A long-standing mystery about how wild bats navigate complex environments in complete darkness with remarkable precision, has ...