That’s how Washington State University neuroscientist Allison Coffin goes about catching midshipman fish — at least during mating season. Standing on the rocky, oyster-covered shoreline of Hood Canal, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The Big Mouth Billy Bass and other singing fish were a scourge first delivered to us in the late 90s. [Kevin Heckart] has been teaching them to sing new songs without the tinny sound quality and hokey ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The finned crooner in question is the ...

The Big Mouth Billy Bass and other singing fish were a scourge first delivered to us in the late 90s. [Kevin Heckart] has been teaching them to sing new songs without the tinny sound quality and hokey ...

A neurobiologist, an artist, and a composer recently presented their collaborative "singing electric fish" installation to thousands of people attending the STRP Festival, one of the largest art and ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. - As fish tales go, this is one more that sounds too good to be true - but it is true. A motion-activated novelty singing fish known as Big Mouth Billy Bass apparently scared off a ...

In the 1980s, people living on houseboats in the San Francisco Bay were puzzled by a droning hum of unknown origin that started abruptly in the late evening and stopped suddenly in the morning. A ...

New Scientist’s Feedback section has a running series of items on “nominative determinism”, that strange phenomenon where a person’s bears eerie witness to their occupation, such as a neurologist ...

Six years ago, the fish ecologist Rodney Rountree was on a skiff in the Peruvian Amazon. He was holding a piranha in his hand…underwater…in a river filled with ...