Bob celebrates Elton John's upcoming birthday and also pays tribute to Jesse Colin Young.

Tony Blackburn brings you two hours of jam-packed hits from the 1960s.

International fans of the BBC will soon no longer be able to use the BBC Sounds app or website as the broadcaster seeks to boost its commercial income. The decision to pull the app will also affect ...

Chinese researchers seek ways to be distinguished in a world where their work is not published using their Mandarin name In academic research, identifying authorship is a unique challenge for Chinese ...

Many fish have a muscle that can vibrate the swim bladder in a way similar to a human’s vocal cords, generating sounds. But sharks “were thought to be silent, unable to actively create sounds ...

You are not alone if you avoid fireworks on July 4th or frequently find yourself telling your children that their loud voices are giving you a headache. Noise is a commonly reported headache trigger ...

Researchers believe the sounds are made by the sharks snapping their flattened teeth together, possibly as a stress or warning signal. This discovery challenges the long-held belief that sharks ...

A common species of shark in New Zealand has been recorded making clicking sounds underwater. Researchers hypothesise that the noise comes from the spotted estuary smooth-hound forcefully snapping ...

"I was very surprised," Carolin Nieder of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute told ScienceAlert. "I was under the assumption that sharks don't make sounds." What we don't know is what the active sounds ...

The sounds were first observed by marine biologist Carolin Nieder, lead author of the new study, while she was working on her Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her project was ...

When you've played on as many smashes as Carol Kaye, you're bound to forget one or two. A lot of people don’t think this fits with Pet Sounds. But really, what does fit with Pet Sounds? “A lot of ...

The frequency of these vibrations is what determines pitch. Low frequencies correspond to deep sounds, like a bass drum; high frequencies correspond to sharp sounds, like a whistle. Sound is composed ...