In 1991, scientists lowered 10 speakers into the water off of a remote Australian island in order to blast a monotonous 57 hertz tone from them for 10 days. Other researchers listened for the distant ...

You have full access to this article via your institution. Neuroscientists are creating more naturalistic experiments that they hope will provide a more nuanced understanding of animal — and human — ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series called “The Day Tomorrow Began,” which explores the history of breakthroughs at UChicago. Learn more here. A field experiment is a research method that uses ...

A student in an Advanced Placement biology class might dissect a fetal pig to study internal organs and the skeleton. But can a student get the same level of experience from a virtual dissection ...

Scientists at the University of Glasgow have confirmed a half-century-old theory that claimed a super-advanced alien civilization could use a black hole as an energy source. By using sound waves, the ...

The film "What Is Sound?" from 1949 explores the concept of sound, explaining that sound is produced by vibrations of objects. It demonstrates various experiments showing how sounds are created and ...