For the first time, scientists have directly measured the hearing range of minke whales, discovering that the species can detect high-frequency sounds as high as 90 kilohertz (kHz), according to a new ...

Kenneth S. Henry (from left), a postdoctoral researcher, and Michael G. Heinz, an associate professor, of Purdue's Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences found that background noise ...

As a bat swoops through the night sky, it chirps out high-frequency calls and listens for the echoing sound waves to navigate the dark forest. Those chirps may be above the hearing range of most ...

The world continues to be a noisy place, and researchers have found that all that background chatter causes the ears of those with hearing impairments to work differently. The world continues to be a ...