Humans couldn't be satisfied with spelling out only things they say. They also needed to spell out the sounds around them. Giving a name to a sound is called "onomatopoeia." The word is difficult to ...

Roar, squawk, and even slither like a snake as we create the sounds of the zoo. Let’s visit the zoo with Ms. Audra! What sounds do lions, elephants, and birds make? In this exciting soundscape ...

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Eventually, he abandoned the music business and Hollywood, where he had worked on the score for the film Apocalypse Now, to collect natural “soundscapes”, the pure, rich sounds of untouched ecosystems ...

You might well think that it sounds too good to be true – a pill that means you can enjoy alcohol without suffering any harmful side-effects. But scientists are one step closer to developing this very ...

A couple of weeks ago, as I wandered through towering ash forests in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, I found myself in the middle of an eastern whipbird conversation. Just to the left of the ...

Footballers who fell under the spell of animal-sacrificing witch doctors are cheated out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. These voodoo witch doctors known as 'marabouts' make it hard for their ...

Ancient, magical spells of love, subjugation and sex: It may sound like a "Game of Thrones" episode, but these evildoings are also found on two recently deciphered papyri from Egypt dating to around 1 ...

Many names have alternative spellings, but some monikers shouldn't be messed with. There are plenty of baby names out there which can be spelt in multiple ways - take Alex, for example, which is ...

However, something went seriously wrong with the entire classification of “Eidechse” (lizard). PETBOOK editor and linguist ...

I kept waiting for a besotted, hoodwinked boyfriend to show up at ACC media days. All I saw was a football coach. If you’re like me, you followed the breathless offseason coverage of NFL legend turned ...