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 ...

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 -- ...

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 ...

Shhh….be quiet. Do you hear that? It’s all around you. Natural sounds occupy one-fifth of our human senses, and it’s easy to miss the subtler tones. But ...

Burping is a normal part of everyday life. Burps happen when air from your stomach travels back up your food tube – called an esophagus – to your mouth. Air gets into your stomach during activities ...

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 ...