Scientists are using underwater microphones to study beaked whales, the ocean’s most elusive mammals. Echolocation clicks ...
Beaked whales are rarely spotted. Now scientists are using underwater sounds to help identify these elusive creatures.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
As you take in a beautiful view of the ocean, do you think of sound? There is a lot of it beneath the waves! Natural sounds are generated by wind, rain, waves, earthquakes as well as whales and ...
Using hydrophones to eavesdrop on a reef off the coast of Goa, India, researchers have helped advance a new low-cost way to monitor changes in the world’s murky marine environments. Reporting their ...
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 ...
Imagine it’s the early 1900s and you’re a giant blue whale basking in the warm waters of the Santa Barbara Channel, just off the coast of Southern California. What do you hear? Fellow whale songs, ...
PORT TOWNSEND — A principal electrical engineer of the University of Washington’s applied physics lab will give a lecture intended to conjure awareness of the reality of underwater sound this weekend.
Sounds of the Ocean is an award-winning immersive mindful experience to connect with the ocean and yourself. An official UN Ocean Decade Activity. This film is an invitation to forge a deep connection ...
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