One of the enduring puzzles of hearing loss is the decline in a person’s ability to determine where a sound originates, a key survival faculty that allows animals to pinpoint …read more Source:: Science
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New ‘acoustic metamaterial’ cancels sound
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•Researchers have demonstrated it’s possible to silence noise using an open, ringlike structure, created to mathematically perfect specifications, for cutting out sounds while maintaining airflow. …read more Source:: Science
Even a shark’s electrical ‘sixth sense’ may be tuned to attack
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•Imagine having superhuman hearing. You’re at a noisy, cocktail party and yet your ears can detect normally inaudible sounds. But, unlike normal hearing, each of these sounds causes your ears …read more Source:: Science
Extinct early whales listened like their relatives on land, fossil evidence shows
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•Whales show surprisingly vast differences in hearing ability. Baleen whales tune into infrasonic sounds to communicate over long distances. Toothed whales do just the opposite, relying on ultrasonic frequencies too …read more Source:: Science
How an open source Gitter could challenge Slack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp It sure sounds like a match made in dev heaven. Yesterday, GitLab — maker of an open source competitor to GitHub — announced it had acquired Gitter, a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Jupiter’s spooky sounds: Emissions from Jupiter’s auroras captured
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•When a NASA spacecraft made its first full orbit around Jupiter, an instrument on board recorded haunting sounds befitting the Halloween season. …read more Source:: Science