A handful of tropes—talking toys, secret passageways, parallel worlds—recur in many children’s books, yet when recombined by ...

Phthalates are part of a group of chemicals known as “endocrine-disruptors” — chemicals that can interfere with the normal functioning of the body’s hormones. Those chemicals are particularly ...

To determine how listeners learn the statistical properties of acoustic spaces, we assessed their ability to perceive speech in a range of noisy and reverberant rooms. Listeners were also exposed to ...