Can humans better listen to the natural world? Karen Bakker thinks yes, with the help of biotechnologies—and a new world perspective. The following is an excerpt from of The Sounds of Life: How ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Today, we know the answer is a resounding yes -- thanks to a bio-acoustic monitoring system that uses artificial ...

Apple researchers figured out a way to speed up AI speech generation from text without sacrificing audio quality or breaking ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...