In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that ...

In the split second after you hear a noise, your brain is already making a potentially life-or-death deduction: Did I do that ...

Some electric fish in Africa have different communication patterns and won't mate with each other, although their DNA is the same, find Cornell scientists. They think the fish are living examples of a ...

Electric organs help electric fish, such as the electric eel, do all sorts of amazing things: They send and receive signals that are akin to bird songs, helping them to recognize other electric fish ...

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for unwary frogs or other small prey. When one swims by, the fish unleash two 600-volt pulses of ...

Bats and dolphins emit sound waves to sense their surroundings; like a battery, electric fish generate electricity to help them detect motion while burrowed in their refuges; and humans use tiny ...

Besides stunning predators and killing prey, electric fish also use their shocking organ to navigate and communicate in murky waters at nighttime. Some of them can discharge up to 600 volts -- a jolt ...

Two very similar species of Amazonian electric fish share a key difference: One uses direct current (DC) and the other alternating current (AC), according to research that formally describes the two ...

When you hear the term ‘electric fish,’ the first thing that probably comes to mind is the infamous electric eel. It’s an aquatic animal capable of stunning nearby threats with a powerful electric ...

In many, many ways, fish of the species Brienomyrus brachyistius do not speak at all like Barack Obama. For starters, they communicate not through a spoken language but through electrical pulses ...