With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...
Top Image credit:European Journal of Entomology 100 (2003): 581-86. We live on a planet thrumming with the diverse voices of communicative animals. But it was not always this way. For more than 90 ...
Researchers observed hummingbirds using 12 high-speed cameras, 6 pressure plates and 2176 microphones. The soft and complex feathered wings generate sound in a fashion similar to how the simpler wings ...
Insects dominate this world. More than 70 percent of the described species on Earth are insects. What made them so successful? Their wing, says Yoshi Tomoyasu, associate professor of biology at Miami ...
Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.
Matmos has made it their mission to make electro-acoustic music funky and fun. For their new album, Return to Archive, Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt plundered the Smithsonian Folkways library for ...
The hummingbird is named after its pleasant humming sound when it hovers in front of flowers to feed. But only now has it become clear how the wing generates the hummingbird's namesake sound when it ...
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