News tagged with acoustic design

New 'hearing' maps are real conversation starters

Innovative sound-mapping software based on human hearing has been developed to help architects design out unwanted noise.

Technology / Software

created Mar 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast




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In future, phones can identify the Troubadour on the tree top

In spring, the sound of birds serenading fills the air. The Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics is developing a system that can recognize a bird species based on a song segment. The system can be ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The use of acoustic inversion to estimate the bubble size distribution in pipelines

New research from the University of Southampton has devised a new method to more accurately measure gas bubbles in pipelines.

Physics / General Physics

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Image: Dream Chaser buffet wind tunnel model

(Phys.org) -- The Dream Chaser model with its Atlas V launch vehicle is undergoing final preparations at the Aerospace Composite Model Development Section's workshop for buffet tests at the Transonic Dynamics ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Metafluids: German researchers realize new material class

A research team lead by Professor Martin Wegener at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has succeeded in realizing a new material class through the manufacturing of a stable crystalline metafluid, a pentamode ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

'Game-powered machine learning' opens door to Google for music

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Unique research laboratory focuses on making aircraft engines more efficient

Travel on airlines has become so routine for most of us, we often fail to appreciate what a true technological marvel it is. And it’s a costly and noisy marvel. Moving millions of passengers millions of miles each year ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sonic screwdriver tightens up fundamental physics

When the scriptwriters for Doctor Who imagined a futuristic device, they came up with the Sonic Screwdriver. Now a team of physicists at the University of Dundee have taken equipment designed for MRI-guided focused ultrasound ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Can sound science guide dispersant use during subsea oil spills?

Two years ago this week, oil began streaming from the seafloor into the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform. All told, the disaster cost 11 lives, released 4.9 million ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Unmanned vessel could soon be working for Navy

Technology that sent unmanned aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan soon could be steering unstaffed naval boats for such dangerous tasks as minesweeping, submarine detection, intelligence gathering and approaching ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

First-ever model simulation of the structuring of the observable universe

A team of researchers from the Laboratoire Univers et Theorie (France) coordinated by Jean-Michel Alimi has performed the first-ever computer model simulation of the structuring of the entire observable universe, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 44


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