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Study: Roller coasters linked to common ear injury

The sharp turns, ups and downs, and high speeds of today's roller coasters bring a lot of thrills, but if you're not careful, the ride could also cause damage to your ears, say physicians at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA Studies Nanomechanics of Inner Ear

(PhysOrg.com) -- Learning how to walk again after long-duration space flights is a problem astronauts face as they readjust to Earth's gravity. To learn how microgravity affects human space travelers, NASA scientists studied ...

Biology / Other

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast




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Public-private partnership helps monitor fish populations

Managing commercial and recreational fisheries is a complex and sometimes contentious process in which fishing interests, scientists, and regulatory agencies don't always see eye-to-eye.

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots

Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio files.

Technology / Software

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

'Orca ears' inspire researchers to develop ultrasensitive undersea microphone

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have developed a microphone that can be used at any depth in the ocean, even under crushing pressure, and is sensitive to a wide range of sounds, from a whisper in a library ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Sound safety: Novel device with rock 'n' roll roots may protect listeners

Engineers investigating "listener fatigue" -- the discomfort and pain some people experience while using in-ear headphones, hearing aids and other devices that seal the ear canal from external sound--have ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A 'genius' and his robots

It was lunch hour and hundreds of Dos Pueblos High School students surged onto the bleachers at the school's outdoor Greek Theater. The crowd was cheering, the music was thumping and a student-built robot named Penguinbot ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Long-sought fossil mammal with transitional middle ear found

Paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History and the Chinese Academy of Sciences announce the discovery of Liaoconodon hui, a complete fossil mammal from the Mesozoic found in China that includ ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Unique Henry Ford case offers cautionary cotton swab tale

The old saying, "never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear," couldn't be truer for a patient who experienced vertigo and severe hearing loss after a cotton swab perforated her eardrum and damaged her inner ear.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Fossil find puts a face on early primates (w/ Video)

When paleontologist Iyad Zalmout went looking for fossil whales and dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia, he never expected to come face-to-face with a significant, early primate fossil.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jul 14, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

UC center chosen to study auditory brain stem implants

If a siren sounded but you were deaf, might you still be able to hear the sound?

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

South Korean shamans fluidly absorb cultural change

spurred by the world's fastest-growing economy from the 1960s to the 1990s—has rapidly developed, shamans and the rituals they perform have adapted to their new hyper-modern landscape and transformed their ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Feb 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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