Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea. By Kate Golembiewski People have told stories of strange underwater sounds for thousands of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Anita Kot / Getty Images) The secret behind how cats produce their enchanting purring sound has finally been ...

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

The human voice, with all its power to mesmerise audiences, woo loved ones and irritate neighbours, is a delicate thing. Each person’s distinctive sound is produced when air from the lungs causes the ...

Purdue University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. In the middle of the interview, the sound of her voice drastically changed, going from lower-pitched and slightly raspy to one ...

The mystery of how cats generate that adorable purring noise when they're happy has been solved by scientists—and it turns out they have more in common with pop stars than you might think. Cats have ...