The Pacific Ocean waters off Southern California used to be much quieter hundreds of years ago. Then came the Industrial Revolution, commercial shipping and about 15 extra decibels (dB) of noise. That ...

As Ireland's Dara Ó Briain once joked on YouTube, "Science knows it doesn't know everything, otherwise it'd stop." The world is full of mysteries to solve and curious subjects to study, and no part of ...

In 1997, researchers recorded a powerful underwater sound in the Pacific Ocean unlike anything ever heard before. Nicknamed the “Bloop,” the mysterious noise was so loud it was detected thousands of ...

A mysterious sound heard booming from deep under the ocean waves has finally been traced to a fascinating source. First recorded in 2014 in the west Pacific, the "biotwang" is actually the call of the ...

There are the slosh-sloshes of the waves, the boisterous barks of sea lions, the singular call of the gulls, and the songs of whales, just to name a few among the millions. But what of the sounds that ...

The ocean is a noisy place, buzzing with sounds created by wildlife, weather, seasons and earthquakes. For sea animals, these sounds form their natural “soundscape”, but a new article in Science shows ...

Acoustic-gravity waves are very long sound waves that cut through the deep ocean at the speed of sound. (Representational Image) Boston: Scientists are developing a system that may help predict a ...