An archive of tens of thousands of animal sounds has just gone online. The searchable Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology boasts nearly 150,000 digital audio recordings, covering about ...

You might know what an ostrich sounds like because you watched that episode of Dirty Jobs, but do you know the sound an ostrich chick makes as it's trying to crack out of its egg? There's now a place ...

The BBC have expanded their sound archives, which now contain over 33,000 samples which can be downloaded for free. The archives – which was originally opened back in 2018 – has more than doubled ...

It’s often said that smell is one of the most memory-invoking senses the human body possesses. But car fanatics might argue that the sounds of a particular vehicle—everything from the engine note to ...

A Nazi radio archive with more than 4,000 discs that have never been played, a collection of Beijing street sounds from the 90s and the voice of Florence Nightingale are among the British Library's ...

Journalists who work with recorded sound know just how painstaking it can be to sift through hours upon hours of audio to find the right clip for a story. Then comes the time-consuming task of ...

Located in a wing of the UC Santa Barbara Library, about a quarter mile from the Pacific Ocean, the university’s collection of early music is the most extensive on the West Coast. Descend in an ...