It’s not just ex-NASA engineers who are trying to develop easier-on-the-ear car horns. Researchers in South Korea, too, have been working on creating the ideal honking sound that isn’t as grating as ...

A mysterious duck-like sound recorded in the ocean around Antarctica has baffled scientists for decades, but the source of the sound has finally been found, researchers say. For more than 50 years, ...

The bizarre noise was first heard 50 years ago but now scientists say the Antarctic minke whale is its source The mystery of a bizarre quacking sound heard in the ocean has finally been solved, ...

LONDON, England --A British study has debunked an urban myth -- that a duck's quack does not echo. A farmyard duck called Daisy was at the center of the acoustic research, carried out at the ...

The old saying that a duck's quack produces no echo is... well, just plain quackers. Daisy performs: The anechoic chamber has no sound reflections Acoustics expert Professor Trevor Cox has deployed ...

Since the 1960s, a strange, repetitious quacking noise called a “bio-duck,” which can frequently be heard in the Southern Ocean, has puzzled marine biologists and underwater acoustic experts. A new ...

Researchers are tackling sound pollution from loud car horns by developing a beep which apparently sounds like a duck's quack. The pleasant-sounding horn is designed to alert people to danger while ...