Imagine a loudspeaker is placed in a room with a few microphones. When the loudspeaker emits a sound impulse, the microphones receive several delayed responses as the sound reverberates from each wall in the room. These first-order ...
Mathematics
Feb 6, 2020
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Who knew orcas were so playful, so full of affection, so constantly touching one another?
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2019
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Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons.
Quantum Physics
Jul 27, 2019
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The old tagline "in space no one can hear you scream" has been confirmed by a South African mother loudly shouting for her children to tidy their room from 33,000 meters above the ground. Or not so loudly, as the case appears ...
Space Exploration
Jul 15, 2019
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Researchers studying wearable listening technology now have a new data set to use, thanks to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign graduate student Ryan Corey and his team.
Engineering
May 14, 2019
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During World War I, William Lawrence Bragg led a team of engineers in the development of an acoustic method to locate enemy artillery, work that was so successful that it was soon used widely throughout the British army.
General Physics
May 13, 2019
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It's rare that a new gadget these days serves a true need. Rather, it creates a want.
Internet
Dec 21, 2018
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An international team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has presented an innovative wearable technology that turns the user's skin into a loudspeaker. This breakthrough was led by Professor Hyunhyub Ko in the School of ...
Engineering
Sep 19, 2018
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There's plenty of fish in the sea for human fisherman and bottlenose dolphins to feast on and now, according to a study by researchers at Stony Brook University published in Marine Mammal Science , both species are using ...
Ecology
May 25, 2018
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Whatever you might have heard, Facebook doesn't listen in on everything you do through the microphone on your phone, mining the information for clues on what ads to send you.
Internet
Apr 12, 2018
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