Rick Sanchez, a star of beloved TV show Rick and Morty, is many things: Brilliant scientist, bad grandpa, off-and-on criminal… He is also very much a belcher. Defining the acoustics of belching wasn’t ...

Certain sand dunes make their own desert music, singing, booming, or even “burping” — a naturally occurring musical instrument. Scientists have discovered that these distinct sounds are each created ...

Avalanching sand from dune faces can trigger loud, rumbling 'booming' or short bursts of 'burping' sounds -- behaving as a perfectly tuned musical instrument. This sound is persistent and the dunes ...

In his travel diaries, Marco Polo recounted how he often heard haunting sounds at night as he traveled through the Gobi desert. Now, researchers studying sand dunes in Death Valley National Park and ...

Researchers slide down dunes to create a sand avalanche on the Eureka Dune in Death Valley National Park in California. Researchers slide down dunes to create a sand avalanche on the Eureka Dune in ...

We don’t really enjoy the sounds of burping, belching and coughing, but it's important to know when these bodily noises are serious enough to call the doctor. Whooping cough is marked by ...

Q. We hear gurgling sounds that appear to be coming from the vent stack of my two-story home. The noise started a few months ago. We’re not experiencing any backups with any of the plumbing so we’re ...

You’ve heard the plaintive meow of a cat and the guttural growl of a lion. Ever wonder why those two felines sound so different? Bioacoustics is the study of the relationship between living things and ...

This would be an outstanding clue in a future Jeopardy episode under the category of Birds: they look like hawks and act like vultures, but they are actually falcons. Answer: What is the crested ...

Washington, D.C., Oct. 27, 2015 -- Avalanching sand from dune faces in Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert can trigger loud, rumbling "booming" or short bursts of "burping" sounds -- ...