When you listen to Steve Roach’s spellbinding Structures From Silence, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the music was breathing. Its atmospheric ambient sounds, largely made up of delicate ...

A whale’s song is one of the most haunting and mysterious sounds on Earth, echoing through the ocean’s depths for miles. What if the vast, open seas—once the perfect stage for these underwater ...

Researchers are listening for right whales off the coast of Massachusetts with the help of two new high-tech buoys.

Now picture those songs not just as random noises, but as complex, evolving dialects—each unique to a particular pod, each ...