Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...

The song of crickets fills the air. Crickets, the heralds of autumn, are truly living up to their name. As the cries of cicadas fade and the chirping of crickets begins, we start reaching for ...

Why an electronic cricket? Many people like the cricket sound specially if they live in a big town. This electronic cricket circuit works in pulses, so the battery life is prolonged, the current ...

Scientists studying a species of South American bush cricket with some of the smallest ears known have discovered it has hearing so sophisticated that it rivals our own. The study, published in ...

For the past 14 years, visitors to the mothballed Lower Saucon Elementary School on Wassergass Road have found it deserted. If they return this fall, they’ll still hear crickets, but this time it ...

I don't recall hearing nighttime insects before I stupidly left Portland in 2011. After I came back in 2014, I noticed crickets (and maybe other critters) making it sound like a warm Southern night ...

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...