Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo Credit: Anita Kot / Getty Images) The secret behind how cats produce their enchanting purring sound has finally been ...

Researchers are studying the lowest vocal register used by chorus singers to better understand the emotional properties of music. This lowest register is called vocal fry, and it sounds a little bit ...

Vocal fry, a speech pattern that is characterized by a throaty, low register, has recently been showing up in speaking styles. That creaky sound has also been popping up in pop music from artists like ...

Pop music enthusiasts are no strangers to vocal fry, the raspy, croaky tone iconically deployed by Britney Spears in “Baby One More Time” and copied over the ensuing years. The technique, so often ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2016 - Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio are studying the lowest vocal register used by chorus singers to better understand the emotional properties of ...

The mystery of how cats generate that adorable purring noise when they're happy has been solved by scientists—and it turns out they have more in common with pop stars than you might think. Cats have ...

Vocal fry, or glottal fry, is the lowest voice register—below falsetto, head, and chest voices—and is characterized by a low-frequency rattling or frying sound. Although it feels like vocal fry reared ...