When Kamini Sehrawat and Prof. Israel Nelken of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem exposed baby mice to the first movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, they weren't simply setting a mood. They were ...

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Overuse of groundwater is causing land subsidence in Delhi, Mumbai, and Chennai, threatening thousands of buildings, a new ...

There has been a shift in the soundscapes. Researchers stunned after recording haunting 'songs' in nature: 'It's a very eerie ...

The trunks and branches of trees in Australia's tropical rainforests—also known as woody biomass—have become a net source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, according to a new international study.

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Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China Objective: The purpose of this study is to explore the value of cough sounds and forced ...

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Babies start processing language before they are born, a new study suggests. A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...