European starlings were the best at imitating R2-D2's multphonic sounds because they can control both sides of both sides of the syrinx independently, the researchers say. Pexels Birds have shown the ...

It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

A significant number of birds are expected to travel through the Chicago area on Tuesday night, prompting a migration alert. Birdcast, a website dedicated to tracking migrating birds and predicting ...

William Feeney receives funding from the Spanish National Research Council. He has previously received funding from the Queensland Government, Hermon Slade Foundation, Seaworld Research and Rescue ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

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At the defense tech and data juggernaut Palantir's customer conference in early September, CEO Alex Karp joined the online talk show "TBPN" to take a victory lap. "We're crushing it," Karp said, ...

Light pollution makes birds work overtime. A behavioral analysis of nearly 600 bird species suggests that light pollution from human development can lengthen the time birds spend singing by nearly an ...

Just a year and a half ago, the latest and greatest of Adobe's Firefly generative AI offerings involved producing high-quality images from text with customization options, such as reference images.