Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. In case you missed it we’re spending this week revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the past year. Today we’re ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A recent study shows that people are able to perceive biodiversity through sights and sounds, and those perceptions correlate with the actual ...

Sounds reach our ears from different locations and first travel through the ear into the ear canal. Then tiny bones inside the middle ear end up vibrating and pushing on a small window. This then gets ...