Babies learning to talk rely on their ears far more than on the movements of their own mouths, according to a body of ...

How do you teach someone to look at the moon? Not glance at it, the way we all have on a clear night, but truly read it, the way a geologist reads a hillside. That was the challenge NASA set itself ...

Since the 1970s, people across the world have reported hearing an inexplicable low-frequency droning. Scientists now think ...

For most of us, watching a movie feels effortless. We follow dialogue, read facial expressions, notice music cues and ...

We don’t just hear speech, we actively reconstruct it. Here’s how the brain turns messy sound into meaning, and why we sometimes get it wrong.

From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the body, and the condition is on the rise. Fortunately, we're learning how best to safeguard this crucia ...

Stand at the edge of a temple courtyard in North Kerala at midnight. Drums beat in waves. A figure emerges — masked, costumed, barely human in appearance. The crowd falls silent. Then the voice comes.

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Rain sounds may be soothing for humans, but for plants the pitter-patter of droplets is more like a jarring morning alarm. As water falls onto soil or more water, the vibrations are far stronger ...

Plants are often seen as passive organisms, rooted in one place and largely unable to react to the world around them. But a new field of research is challenging these assumptions and showing that ...

Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people who have a fascinating trait known as synesthesia. Synesthesia is a ...