French Scientists are Working on an Acoustic Earthquake Shield | The Verge

It works on the principle of refraction, planting an array of boreholes to redirect the reverberations around the city and…
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Plants fight back when they ‘hear’ bugs chew | Futurity

The sound a caterpillar makes when it chews on a leaf sets off a plant’s alarm system. In response, researchers say, the…
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Your Candy Wrappers are Listening – IEEE Spectrum

The research, which will be presented at the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH 2014 next week, builds on work from MIT’s Computer Science and…
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