In his travel diaries, Marco Polo recounted how he often heard haunting sounds at night as he traveled through the Gobi desert. Now, researchers studying sand dunes in Death Valley National Park and ...

Rick Sanchez, a star of beloved TV show Rick and Morty, is many things: Brilliant scientist, bad grandpa, off-and-on criminal… He is also very much a belcher. Defining the acoustics of belching wasn’t ...

Researchers slide down dunes to create a sand avalanche on the Eureka Dune in Death Valley National Park in California. Researchers slide down dunes to create a sand avalanche on the Eureka Dune in ...

Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2015 -- Avalanching sand from dune faces in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert can trigger loud, rumbling "booming" or short bursts of "burping" sounds -- ...

Certain sand dunes make their own desert music, singing, booming, or even “burping” — a naturally occurring musical instrument. Scientists have discovered that these distinct sounds are each created ...

You’ve heard the plaintive meow of a cat and the guttural growl of a lion. Ever wonder why those two felines sound so different? Bioacoustics is the study of the relationship between living things and ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

We don’t really enjoy the sounds of burping, belching and coughing, but it's important to know when these bodily noises are serious enough to call the doctor. Whooping cough is marked by ...

Belching is the act of expelling air from the stomach through the mouth. You can feel the need to burp if you swallow more air than typical, whether due to certain foods, medications, a health ...

Burping or belching, a natural bodily function, releases the audible escape of the buildup of air from our stomach through our mouth. This excessive burping can be an alarming sign of underlying ...

Relieving excessive burping involves moving around, changing positions, or drinking ginger tea. Managing stress and ...