People often judge a neighborhood by its trees, buildings, traffic, and open spaces. However, its mix of sounds, such as birds, rain, engines, voices, and music, also ...

Recently, researchers at North Carolina State University studied how different sounds and surroundings affect people's ...

The mixed combination of birdsong in the city and traffic noise in the forest produced moderate results, suggesting that both natural surroundings and bird sounds independently improve mood, and ...

Forget the typical spa soundtracks, like rainstorms and crashing waves. The next time you want to relax, head to Spotify, look up key phrases like “birds in the forest,” and enjoy a cacophony of ...

Scientists planted a volunteer group in the middle of a college campus and a restored urban forest, then piped competing ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they make ...

An international study has found that thousands of bird species build their songs using just eight fundamental acoustic patterns.