Ancient Egyptians wrote the letter upside down, creating a symbol that resembled a steer with horns. Learn the surprising ...

Researchers investigated vocalizations and interjections for pain, joy, and disgust across 131 languages. An international ...

While white noise has been found to improve the quality of sleep in some populations, including ICU patients, brown noise and ...

The English language is challenging due to complicated grammar, inconsistent sentence structure and colloquial idioms that it doesn't share with related languages. However, English is a target ...

Two hours of great British groups from the 1960s presented by Tony Blackburn.

Halloween is here and it’s time to get into the spooky spirit with BBC Sounds. Whether you want spine ... wonderful and a little off kilter in a small English town called Biggleswade and its ...

From Wim Wenders’s Hammett to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth, the English-language debut is a rock on which many directors have run aground. So it proves with Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next ...

We believe Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) is positioned to grow its valuation by well over 3x from the already huge $2-trillion figure now – potentially becoming the world’s most valuable company by a ...

A haunting soundscape of "alien-like" creaking sounds emphasizes the strain put on our planet's invisible protective shield. The new video, released Oct. 10 by the European Space Agency (ESA ...

Well, bears are no different with the sounds that they make. They cannot use words, and so we have to rely on our understanding of what their vocalizations mean. Unlike what Hollywood wants us to ...

Young and adult raccoons whistle a lot, especially in their first two months. Otto J. Sieber explains the sounds raccoons make in their article “Vocal Communication in Raccoons (Procyon lotor)”. Here ...