Of the roughly 250,000 known marine species, scientists think all ~126 marine mammals emit sounds – the ‘thwop’, ‘muah’, and ‘boop’s of a humpback whale, for example, or the boing of a minke whale.

Chris Kehrer, science program manager at Port Royal Sound Foundation in South Carolina, recently answered a question I have wondered about since childhood. Why does the Atlantic croaker, a marine fish ...

Oregon State University acoustic engineer Haru Matsumoto dives behind a glider being tested in Kona, Hawaii. After testing, scientists sent the glider on an 18-day trip along the Washington state and ...

When you purchase products through the Bookshop.org link on this page, Science Friday earns a small commission which helps support our journalism. One summer day when we were kids, my brother and I ...

The ocean soundtrack of the popular imagination is a largely silent one, interrupted only by the mournful aria of migrating whales or the acapella vocalizations of dolphin pods. In fact, the ...

Our fascinating and magnificent planet is filled with countless different sounds of nature. While many of us experience nature's cacophony of sounds on land and in the sky and hearing them makes us ...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire are partnering with the first utility-scale offshore wind project approved in the U.S., Vineyard Wind, to gather data on underwater sounds and how they ...

Today's guest post is presented courtesy of Lauren Freeman, an NRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Lab. She studies how humans impact ocean habitats including coral reefs and coastal ...

These sound waves were then picked up by a receiver as a binary pattern with 1 being reflected sound waves and 0 being unreflected sound waves. This binary signal allows the UBL system to carry ...

Discover the revolutionary experience of listening to music underwater with OpenSwim Shokz. Dive into a world where sound meets aquatic adventure, thanks to this cutting-edge waterproof technology.

At a time when ocean noise is receiving increased global attention, researchers have developed an effective method to use an underwater robotic glider to measure sound levels over broad areas of the ...