New Technology Brings Sound To Little Girl

“The physician was able to get all of the electrodes into her cochlea,” Daniel says, “however, you have to have…
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Using sonar to navigate: Bats do it, dolphins do it, and now humans can do it, too: Graphene-based microphone, speaker yield lightweight ultrasonic receiver, transmitter — ScienceDaily

Speakers and microphones both use diaphragms, typically made of paper or plastic, that vibrate to produce or detect sound, respectively.…
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Robotic drones help scientists map sand tiger shark routes along the Delaware coast | Delaware First Media

The technology has revealed that the sand tiger sharks like to remain close to shore and in the fall, they…
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Sound-bouncing membrane could make plane cabins 1,000 times quieter

North Carolina State University and MIT researchers, whose work was detailed last week in Applied Physics Letters, figured out that by…
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Nano-sized audio recordings could signal storage breakthrough

Using this method, you could store sound information either as a varying-intensity waveform or a frequency-varying waveform. To test it, the group…
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Do stars make sound? Researchers say yes

A team of researchers have found the first evidence that stars generate a sound of their own — although the result is…
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Alzheimer’s Treatments Could Go Acoustic | Chemical

Two scientists demonstrated that bombarding mouse brains with sound waves not only removed disease-related amyloid-β plaques but also restored memory…
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Stonehenge As An Ancient Dance Club

Whatever our prehistoric ancestors were doing at Stonehenge, they were probably doing it to trance music, suggests a new study.  Researchers…
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See it, touch it, feel it: Researchers use ultrasound to make invisible 3-D haptic shape that can be seen and felt

The research, led by Dr Ben Long and colleagues Professor Sriram Subramanian, Sue Ann Seah and Tom Carter from the…
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Ultrasounds dance the ‘moonwalk’ in new metamaterial

In this study, the researchers developed a new type of metamaterial, in the fluid phase, formed of porous silicone microbeads…
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