The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...
New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like sounds. These patterns are deliberate and structured, similar to human ...
"It's another humbling moment that we're not the only species with rich, communicative, communal, and cultural lives." ...
During the formative years of reading skills in schools, kids should be introduced to vowel sounds. These are not the easiest lessons, but vowels help them with reading and spelling accuracy. Learning ...
Project CETI, you may recall, is the same group that recently released footage showing adult sperm whales collaborating as doulas to help one of their own give birth. That researc ...