Items tagged with sound

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Measuring Sound With a Nanoscopic Air Bubble Friday, December 5th, 2008 - 14:55:58 - Anuradha Menon It will soon be possible to measure ultrasonic sound using water, air, light and nanotechnology – over a hundred times more accurately than with... read more

How the Inner Ear's Sensors are Made Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 - 16:39:12 - Anuradha Menon A UCLA study shows for the first time how microscopic crystals form sound and gravity sensors inside the inner ear. Located at the ends of cilia —... read more

The Grunter Gets the Worm Thursday, October 16th, 2008 - 18:12:10 - Ehud Rattner The Eighth Annual Sopchoppy Worm Gruntin' Festival in Sopchoppy, Florida, hardly seems like the place to make an important scientific discovery. But... read more

Cluster Satellites Listen to Earth's Sounds Sunday, June 29th, 2008 - 10:22:25 - Ehud Rattner The first thing an alien race is likely to hear from Earth is chirps and whistles, a bit like R2-D2, the robot from Star Wars. In reality, they are... read more

Experts Unveil 'Cloak of Silence' Monday, June 16th, 2008 - 20:56:28 - Ehud Rattner Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves. The technology, outlined in the... read more

How Female Concave-eared Frogs Draw Mates? Monday, May 12th, 2008 - 20:46:23 - Ehud Rattner Most female frogs don't call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then -... read more

Music Go Blu-ray Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 - 10:56:09 - Iddo Genuth Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians... read more

PS3 Getting DTS-HD Audio Support Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 - 10:35:01 - Iddo Genuth On April 15th, Sony will issue firmware version 2.3, which will add support for the DTS-HD Master Audio (MA) and DTS-HD High Resolution (HR) to the... read more

Oldest Audio Recording Played Saturday, March 29th, 2008 - 16:24:29 - Iddo Genuth Researchers said Friday that they have played back the oldest audio recording ever made, a 10-second snippet of singing made 17 years before Thomas... read more

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