13-12-30 You might think that beatboxing, with its harsh, high-energy percussive（冲击的） sounds, would be harder on the voice than the sweet song of a soprano（女高音） . But according to new research by voice expert Dr. H. Steven Sims of the University of...

13-07-05 For years, pilots flying into combat have jammed enemy radar to get the drop on their opponents. It turns out that moths can do it, too. A new study co-authored by a University of Florida researcher shows hawkmoths（天蛾） use sonic pulses from thei...

12-12-17 精彩对白 Dad: Hi, Marley, it's Dad. I'm coming into town tonight and I'd like to see you. I'll call you once I get to the hotel. Hope you're doing well. Bye. Julian: He sounds like he's making an effort . Marley: It's too little too late. Go ahead ....

12-11-15 Grasshoppers are having to change their song -- one of the iconic sounds of summer -- to make themselves heard above the din（喧嚣） of road traffic, ecologists have discovered. The study, published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functi...

12-11-08 Clownfish produce sounds to establish and defend their breeding status in social groups, but not to attract mates, according to research published November 7 in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Orphal Colleye and colleagues from the University of...

12-11-02 An Asian elephant named Koshik can imitate human speech, speaking words in Korean that can be readily understood by those who know the language. The elephant accomplishes this in a most unusual way: he vocalizes with his trunk in his mouth. The elep...

12-08-06 African elephants are known to be great communicators that converse with extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles. These infrasounds occupy a very low frequency range -- fewer than 20 Hertz, or cycles, per...

12-01-18 Listen up, pedestrians（行人 ） wearing headphones. Can you hear the trains or cars around you? Many probably can't, especially young adult males. Serious injuries to pedestrians listening to headphones have more than tripled in six years, according...

12-01-10 Researchers have discovered that children under the age of two control speech using a different strategy than previously thought. During the study at Queen's University, the researchers changed the vowel sounds that the participants heard over headp...

11-07-12 It's not just the words, but the sounds of words that have meaning for us. This is true for children and adults, who can associate the strictly auditory（听觉的） parts of language vowels produced in the front or the back of the mouth, high or low p...