We love to talk. Whether it’s a friendly chat, a meaningful conversation, or even a heated debate, words and sounds are at ...

In the animal kingdom, some creatures are famous for the sounds they make — birds and their songs, cats and their meows, frogs and their ribbits. But some animals are more quietly mysterious. Do ...

Scientists studied guinea pigs' communication to understand how the brain recognizes communication sounds regardless of accents and surrounding noise. In a paper published today in Communications ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...

Some animals fake their body size by sounding 'bigger' than they actually are. Researchers studied 164 different mammals and found that animals who lower their voice to sound bigger are often skilled ...

Language was long understood as a human-only affair. New research suggests that isn’t so. Credit...Illustration by Denise Nestor Supported by By Sonia Shah Can a mouse learn a new song? Such a ...

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...