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What better way to track whales than listening in on them? Passive acoustic monitoring, in which microphones are placed ...

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In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

You may not think of fish as being noisy, but they can actually be a pretty vocal bunch. A new AI system is able to quickly ...

In “Eavesdropping on Animals: What We Can Learn From Wildlife Conversations,” George Bumann—artist, sculptor and Yellowstone ...

We're eavesdropping on conversations between organs that we've never heard before." He adds that the immune system likely evolved as a safeguard during adversity, pointing out that our ancestors ...

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Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean reveals year-to-year variations that track changes in the availability of the species they forage on, reports a new study led by John Ryan ...

Eavesdropping – the very word in English suggests a rude and invasive action. It conjures up images of a wiretap, or an ear against the door. To listen in on conversations of people unknown to you may ...