When you are out in the woods and hear a cracking sound, your brain needs to process quickly whether the sound is coming from, say, a bear or a chipmunk. A biomedical engineer now has a new ...

From Alvin and the Chipmunks to Disney’s Chip and Dale, cartoonists have characterized chipmunks as one of nature’s most lovable rodents. Here are 11 illuminating facts about what their real-life ...

If you are interested in birds, you really have to be interested in birds songs — and really any kind of sounds birds make. Generally the term “bird calls” is used to encompass sounds of any kind, but ...

Miniature Russian spyware is infiltrating an underground Canadian community. The perpetrators? Scientists studying how eastern chipmunks communicate. For the first time, the team has outfitted the ...