The spotted owl changed the fate of Northwest forests in the summer of 1990. Thirty years later, what hope, ... Forsman makes a high-pitched sound like a mouse. He pauses, scans.

But this owl-inspired aerogel is different. The new aerogel is lightweight, incredibly effective, and can handle a broad spectrum of noise. The newly developed light, porous two-l ...

From the buried speakers, they then played white noise, a high-frequency sound, and recordings of a burrowing vole, a low-frequency sound. (Read about the world’s biggest owl, an endangered ...

I didn’t get to see my favorite bird, the flammulated owl, but I got to hear three of them. That made 51 consecutive years of ...

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Wind turbines are great for clean energy but they aren't perfect. One issue is how loud they can be. To address this, designers are using owls as a model for making their turbines quieter.

Secret World Of Sound With David Attenborough is a nature docuseries that uses enhanced audio to show how animals navigate and survive their environment. As Attenborough says in the show’s ...

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Owls produce negligible noise while flying. While many studies have linked the micro-fringes in owl wings to their silent flight, the exact mechanisms have been unclear. Now, a team of researchers ...

Last fall, freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill got a new neighbor: an owl. What wasn't clear was whether the owl was trying to befriend them, or catch them.

Ms. Ackerman is the author of “What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds,” from which this essay is excerpted. When the first lucky observers spotted Flaco, the ...