News tagged with sound
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Fish talk to each other, researcher finds
The undersea world isn't as quiet as we thought, according to a New Zealand researcher who found fish can "talk" to each other.
Jul 07, 2010 |
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Key mechanism in the brain's computation of sound location identified
New York University researchers have identified a mechanism the brain uses to help process sound localization. Their findings, which appear in the latest edition of the journal PLoS Biology, focus on how the brain comput ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Scientists reveal dolphins' diplomatic social behaviour
Scientists from the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute (BDRI) on the island of Sardinia off the coast of Italy have published the most complete repertoire ever of sounds made by bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Bursting bubbles with sound offers new treatments for cancer
A new way to deliver cancer drugs using gas bubbles and sound waves is to be developed at the University of Leeds. The project will enable highly toxic drugs to be delivered in small doses directly to tumours, where their ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Imaging reveals how brain fails to tune out phantom sounds of tinnitus
About 40 million people in the U.S. today suffer from tinnitus, an irritating and sometimes debilitating auditory disorder in which a person "hears" sounds, such as ringing, that don't actually exist. There isn't a cure for ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Physicists simulate sounds of the Higgs boson (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- If particle physicists ever find the Higgs boson, they might be hearing its signature rather than - or in addition to - seeing it. The different sounds that particles make can give physicists ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Sound creates light: German researchers transfer ultra-stable frequency across a 480-km-long optical fiber link
German researchers at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt have found an elegant solution to transmit an optical frequency with extreme precision: they employ fiber Brillouin amplification. The new method ...
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Changing sounds are key to understanding speech
(PhysOrg.com) -- On the printed page, c*ns*n*nts m*tt*r m*r* th*n v*w*ls.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 22, 2010 |
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Trumping the trumpets: How audio engineering helps tone down vuvuzela disruption (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to researchers at the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) at Queen Mary, University of London, anyone watching the World Cup on their computer can now filter out the droning sounds of vuvuzela ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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'Anti Vuvuzela Filter' promises quieter World Cup
An online company has begun marketing an "Anti Vuvuzela Filter" that promises to silence the sound of the controversial plastic trumpets that have become the trademark of South Africa's World Cup.
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Japanese company develops world's first ultra-thin piezoelectric waterproof speaker
(PhysOrg.com) -- Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., a company based in Kyoto in Japan, has made what they claim to be the world's first ultra-thin (0.9 mm thick) waterproof piezoelectric speaker.
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Nanotech Speakers Hold Promise for Sonar Uses
(PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers have found that carbon nanotube sheets perform well as underwater sound generators and noise-canceling speakers, two highly desirable traits for submarine sonar and stealth ...
Jun 14, 2010 |
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Dolphins use diplomacy in their communication
Until now, the scientific community had thought that whistles were the main sounds made by these mammals, and were unaware of the importance and use of burst-pulsed sounds. Researchers from the Bottlenose ...
Jun 09, 2010 |
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How does the human brain memorize a sound?
Sound repetition allows us to memorize complex sounds in a very quick, effective and durable way. This form of auditory learning, which was evidenced for the first time by French researchers from CNRS, ENS Paris, and Paris ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2010 |
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Adults with dyslexia have problems with non-speech sounds too
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dyslexia is usually associated with persistent reading, spelling, and sometimes speech difficulties that are hard to overcome. One theory proposed to explain the condition is that people with dyslexia suffer ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 01, 2010 |
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