News tagged with noise
Children and teenagers at risk for noise-induced hearing loss
Children and teenagers are frequently exposed to potentially damaging noise levels in schools, at home, and in sports, but there has been little reported on their risk for noise-induced hearing loss. In fact, three million ...
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Study shows Human Sounds may Kill Fish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Anthropogenic, or human generated, sounds have the potential to significantly affect the lives of aquatic animals - from the individual animal’s well-being, right through to its reproduction, migration and ...
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Noisy workplaces can make workers deaf
The majority of the 650,000 employees from Quebec's manufacturing sector - specifically those working in metallurgy and sawmilling - are exposed to noise levels that exceed governmental norms.
Mar 10, 2009 |
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What you see affects what you hear (Videos)
Understanding what a friend is saying in the hubbub of a noisy party can present a challenge - unless you can see the friend's face.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing
So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.
Feb 27, 2009 |
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IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS
At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave ...
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American ...
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Physicists Show that Correlated Environmental Variations Can Quicken Extinctions
(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, population extinction is a natural process. For one reason or another, an estimated 99.9% of all species that have lived on Earth are now extinct. However, the reasons for a species ...
Jan 13, 2009 |
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NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2009 |
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