New technology enables us to perceive sounds beyond human hearing range, allowing a new perspective on our place on the planet.

This feature, dubbed the Silverpit crater, immediately ignited a firestorm of scientific debate that reveals as much about the challenges of geology as it does about the history of our solar system.

Humans and other animals gradually learn what sounds or other sensory cues in their surroundings are meaningful or ...

Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

The Big Bang wasn't really a bang. It wasn't a crash, a rumble, or anything you might expect from the birth of everything as ...