A new study should sound alarm bells regarding the ‘biodiversity crisis’ or the loss of wildlife around the world. …read more Source:: Science
Tag: sound
New form of laser for sound
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•The optical laser has grown to a $10 billion global technology market since it was invented in 1960, and has led to Nobel prizes for Art Ashkin for developing optical …read more Source:: Science
Alligator study reveals insight into dinosaur hearing
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•A biologist finds alligators build neural maps of sound the way birds do, suggesting the hearing strategy existed in their common ancestor, the dinosaurs. …read more Source:: Science
Exotic ‘second sound’ phenomenon observed in pencil ‘lead’
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•At relatively balmy temperatures, heat behaves like sound when moving through graphite, study reports. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster together
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•Scientists have used sound waves to levitate particles, revealing new insights about how materials cluster together in the absence of gravity — principles which underlie everything from how molecules assemble …read more Source:: Science
Time-traveling illusion tricks the brain
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•Researchers have developed two new illusions that reveal how the senses can influence each other — in particular, how sound can give rise to visual illusions. These illusions occur so …read more Source:: Science
Sound can be used to print droplets that couldn’t be printed before
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•Researchers have developed a new printing technology that uses sound waves to control the size of liquid droplets independent of fluid viscosity. This approach could greatly broaden the types of …read more Source:: Science
Creating a (synthetic) song from a zebra finch’s muscle
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•Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues, and new research shows that these muscles act in concert to create sound. …read more Source:: Science
Scientists design bacteria to reflect ‘sonar’ signals for ultrasound imaging
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•Scientists have designed bacteria to reflect sound waves like submarines. The technology could eventually allow doctors to image therapeutic bacteria in the body using ultrasound. …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists put sound back into a previously silent past
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•Many attempts to explain how past people experienced their wider world have focused on sight at the expense of sound, but researchers have now developed a tool that puts sound …read more Source:: Science