Everyone that has ever heard a frog croak associates the sound with the word “Ribbit.” In reality, the natural noise that comes from a frog or toad is really more like a chirp. Thanks to the magic of ...

Susan Hiller: Lost and Found, installation view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (image courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery, London, photo courtesy PAMM, photo by Oriol Tarridas) In the early 1960s, ...

A small stimulator placed in the outer ear can activate the vagus nerve using unnoticeable electrical pulses to stimulate one of the nerve’s nearby branches. New research by neuroscientists at the ...

Where you grew up may influence how you speak. High in the mountains, languages contain short bursts of sound, says a new study. Why? Maybe cliff dwellers needed to keep their throats from drying out.

Swear words across different languages may tend to lack certain sounds such as l, r, and w, suggests new research. This common pattern in profanity indicates that these sounds, called approximants, ...

New research by neuroscientists revealed that a simple, earbud-like device that imperceptibly stimulates the brain could significantly improve the wearer's ability to learn the sounds of a new ...