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Being heard in the herd: do harp seals use pitch changes to reduce the cocktail party effect?

Every March, hundreds of thousands of harp seals migrate south to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, to give birth on the pack ice and to mate.  They have a large repertoire of underwater calls that they

Does traffic noise increase the risk of obesity?

There is an association between road traffic noise and the risk of obesity among people who are particularly sensitive to noise, according to a study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Previously, a Swedish study reported