Ventriloquist delight: Scientists twist sound with metamaterials so sound appears to come from somewhere else — ScienceDaily

"Numerous research efforts have centered on metamaterial-based devices with fascinating wave-control capabilities such as invisibility or illusion cloaks," said Jian-chun…
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How researchers are resurrecting antique musical instruments

Before completing his medical degree from the UConn School of Medicine, Robert Howe '82 MD had already been heading toward…
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Microsoft’s bone-conducting headset guides the blind with audio cues

According to her detailed report on the experiment, the beacons would constantly send audio cues that sound like the galloping coconut noise…
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First phononic crystal that can be altered in real time — ScienceDaily

Dynamically reconfigurable metamaterials based devices with optical or acoustic wavelengths from ten microns to ten cm could have a wide…
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A short stay in darkness may heal hearing woes — ScienceDaily

Call it the Ray Charles Effect: a young child who is blind develops a keen ability to hear things that…
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Fly-inspired sound detector: New device based on a fly’s freakishly acute hearing for futuristic hearing aids — ScienceDaily

A team of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin has developed a tiny prototype device that mimics the…
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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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Acoustic Manipulation in 3D Space

The essence of levitation technology is the countervailing of gravity. It is known that an ultrasound standing wave is capable…
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