Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

“Noise” is a fuzzy word—a noisy one, in the statistical sense. Its meanings run the gamut from the negative to the positive, from the overpowering to the mysterious, from anarchy to sublimity. The ...

Reports of auroral sounds, long dismissed or attributed to other sources, are being investigated by Unto Laine's Aurora Acoustics Project, focusing on sounds recorded near the ground in Finland since ...

Researchers document a rig shark's vocal capabilities in a University of Auckland experiment conducted between May 2021 and April 2022. Click. Click. Click. Marine biologist Dr. Carolin Nieder, ...

Sharks may not be the sharp-toothed silent type after all. The clicking of flattened teeth, discovered by accident, could be “the first documented case of deliberate sound production in sharks,” ...