Listening to the sounds of nature such as birdsong reduces stress levels - but the sound of traffic increases them, new research shows. The research lends support for anyone who is a firm believer in ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music. When the musician James Bishop hiked a section of the Pacific ...

Ever wondered why that beach vacation left you feeling so refreshed? Or why you seem to catch fewer colds after camping trips? The sounds of nature aren’t just pleasing to your ears—they’re actually ...

Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds—one of the natural world's greatest symphonies—is a joy like no other. It is not ...

Possibly no one understands the power of mornings better than Martha herself, who believes in maximizing your mornings by never starting your day later than 7 a.m. But have you ever considered that ...

The Cincinnati Nature Center built a new immersive listening experience designed to amplify the sounds of the forest for ...

To parse foreground and background sounds, the auditory cortex of humans and ferrets share a similar hierarchical organization, but the underlying computational mechanisms are fundamentally different.