16-04-20 Do nails on a chalkboard make you cringe? Imagine if a sound could make you panic or fly into a rage. 指甲划过黑板的声音是否让你难以忍受？或许有种声音会让你惊恐或者勃然大怒。 This is the case with misophonia -- a strong dislike or hatred of specific...

16-04-04 The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study has found. The results suggest that people are likely to consume less if they can hear themselves eating. 最新研究表明，人们在咀嚼东西时发出的声音...

16-03-08 A new scientific study from the University College London has found that humans may be rendered temporarily deaf when they're simultaneously focusing on something visual. 伦敦大学学院最新的研究发现，人们在专注于眼前事物时，可能会出现短暂性的失聪症状...

16-03-03 For what may be the first time, scientists have eavesdropped on the deepest part of the world's oceans and instead of finding a sea of silence, they discovered a cacophony of sounds both natural and caused by humans. For three weeks, a titanium-enca...

15-07-01 Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to communicate in this way. Researchers at the Universities o...

15-05-21 A team of New York University neuroscientists has identified a part of the brain exclusively devoted to processing speech. Its findings point to the superior temporal sulcus (STS), located in the temporal lobe, and help settle a long-standing debate...

15-04-28 When the charity International Cat Care asked veterinary neurologists at Davies Veterinary Specialists, UK, for help with several enquiries it had received regarding cats having seizures, seemingly in response to certain high-pitched sounds, the ans...

14-11-10 North Carolina State University researchers have developed technology that allows cyborg cockroaches, or biobots, to pick up sounds with small microphones and seek out the source of the sound. The technology is designed to help emergency personnel f...

14-09-15 When people practice simple word classification tasks before nodding off -- knowing that a cat is an animal or that flipu isn't found in the dictionary, for example -- their brains will unconsciously continue to make those classifications even in sl...

14-03-28 By reptile standards, alligators are positively chatty. They are the most vocal of the non-avian reptiles and are known to be able to pinpoint the source of sounds with accuracy. But it wasn't clear exactly how they did it because they lack external...