Sound

Starting in the late 2000s, Colleen Reichmuth and Ole Larsen made a number of visits to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, Calif., to hear a walrus make some noise. The male Pacific walrus, named Sivuqaq, was approaching sexual…

In 1931, researchers working in the south of France discovered a large mussel at the entrance to a cave. Inconspicuous at first glance, it languished in the collections of a nearby natural history museum for decades.Now a team has…

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Chuck Yeager, the most famous test pilot of his generation, who was the first to break the sound barrier and, thanks to Tom Wolfe, embodied the death-defying aviator who had the elusive but unmistakable “right stuff”, died on Monday in Los…