Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how baleen whales call out at sea. By Kate Golembiewski People have told stories of strange underwater sounds for thousands of ...

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Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects produced a ...

The voice is a strong instrument, but if you’re reckless, singing can endanger your body. Vocal cords are part of the larynx, a tube-shaped organ in your neck that acts as the body’s voice box in ...

Humans talk with the larynx or voice box. This small but versatile apparatus is at the back of the throat, at the very top of the trachea. It is both formed by and supported by the cartilage rings of ...