Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.

It isn’t Halloween season, so why are you hearing terrifying screams in your local forests? There’s one particular reason for that, which depends on where you live. In late winter, red foxes get loud, ...

Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, heartbreaking new research suggests. Published recently in the journal ...