Police investigations use wiretapped phone recordings as investigative material fairly regularly. But how do they know that the voice on the recording actually belongs to the suspect? Ph.D. student Laura Smorenburg is trying ...
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Jun 12, 2023
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Did you know that wires can be used to ionize air to make a loudspeaker? Simply put, it's possible to generate sound by creating an electric field in a set of parallel wires, aka a plasma transducer, strong enough to ionize ...
General Physics
May 22, 2023
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In a paper published today in Communications Biology, auditory neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh describe a machine learning model that helps explain how the brain recognizes the meaning of communication sounds, ...
Biotechnology
May 2, 2023
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A curator gingerly fastens a pointy claw bone with a thin metal wire, completing perhaps the world's biggest construction kit—reassembling a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus-Rex called Trinity.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 29, 2023
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Very small exhaled droplets, so-called aerosol particles, play an important role in the airborne transmission of pathogens such as the coronavirus. Researchers in the field of fluid mechanics used a model to investigate how ...
General Physics
Dec 8, 2022
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When two musical notes are played simultaneously, the human ear can perceive weak additional tones called combination tones. These subjective tones result from the nonlinearity of the inner ear and are attributed to the amplification ...
General Physics
Nov 1, 2022
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Humans are the only species on earth known to use language. We do this by combining sounds to form words and words to form hierarchically-structured sentences. The question of where this extraordinary capacity originates ...
Plants & Animals
May 17, 2022
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In the words of Sigmund Freud, "time spent with cats is never wasted." It's a view that's shared by the millions of people across the globe who are drawn to the small felines who chose to live with humans thousands of years ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2022
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Nagoya University physiologists have furthered understanding of the bird neural circuitry that allows them to distinguish where a specific sound is coming from. Their findings, published in the journal Science Advances, could ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 3, 2022
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It may be true that seeing is believing, but sometimes hearing can be better.
Nanophysics
Jan 19, 2022
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