If you put a microphone underwater near the oyster reef in North Carolina's Pamlico Sound, you can hear it: a crisp, crackling noise that sounds like someone just dumped a ton of Rice Krispies into ...

Brittany Williams is a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide. Dominic McAfee receives funding from the Australian Research Council, and from the South Australian Department for Environment and ...

WavTap records sound with a keyboard shortcut. Snapping a screenshot on your Apple device is dead easy: home-plus-sleep-button for iOS, and Command-Shift-4 (or others) for the Mac. But what about ...

George Mason University economist Walter E. Williams has said many times over many years that “Nothing opens the closed minds of college administrators better than the sounds of pocketbooks snapping ...

How climate change is altering nature’s sonic landscape. By Emily Anthes Spring in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, in Northern California, is typically a natural symphony. Streams whoosh, swollen with ...

Scientists have confirmed their previous observations that rising temperatures increase the sound of snapping shrimp, a tiny crustacean found in temperate and tropical coastal marine environments ...

Rice Krispies? Rain hitting a tin roof? Bacon frying? How about noisy creatures known as snapping shrimp. Warm temperate and tropical coastal waters around the world are teeming with these noisy ...

Snap, crackle, hush. Snapping shrimps – which produce ubiquitous crackles that guide fish larvae to reefs – may become quieter by the end of the century. This is a likely outcome of ocean ...

Though oysters may be brainless bivalves, they can “hear” and swim towards attractive sounds of the sea. We played the crackling sound of snapping shrimp, which indicates a healthy reef, to baby ...

Woods Hole, MA — In a warming ocean, snapping shrimp might be the acoustic canary in the coal mine. Research published by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists today in Frontiers in ...