Teenager Ella Coonen is rapidly losing her hearing. "The Sound of a Bucket List" is documenting her effort to hear great ...

The song of the Savi's Warbler sounds like a strange insect buzzing. These birds live near European lakes, ponds, and rivers, just above the water's surface. During nesting season, males perch on ...

Every city has a distinctive sound—a blend of street traffic and distant sirens, rustling leaves and urban wildlife. But for years, the soundscapes at intersections across America shared something ...

Perseverance is the key to success, especially if you have the right tools and the gumption of innocence. At the time of my first lesson in a “stick-to-the goal” adventure, I was a teenager living in ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

DETROW: That chirping you're hearing right now is the western meadowlark. It's one of the sounds that made the Macauley Library's list of best audio recordings of 2025. The library is an online ...

Scientists found electromagnetic waves they converted into chirping noises from much further in space than previously thought possible. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Scientists found ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have detected cosmic waves that sound like birds chirping in an unexpected place. These bursts of plasma, called chorus waves, ripple at the same frequency as human hearing.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. NASA’s four Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS ...