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Investigators from the Henry Ford Hospital, in Detroit, say that insomnia tend to worsen tinnitus in chronic patients. The discovery is extremely important, since more than 36 million people suffer from ringing in the ear. What the team found is that tinnitus patients who also can't sleep at night tend to report... |
21 April 2012
07:53 GMT |
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Scientists with the US National Science Foundation (NSF) National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, in Durham, North Carolina, recently determined that human noises have a widespread, ripple effect on plants. Previously, this influence was thought to be limited only to animals.
Past studies have evidenced that birds an... |
21 March 2012
07:00 GMT |
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Understanding ecosystems and landscapes is a critical part of ecology, the science of the relationships forming in our environments. Experts with the Purdue University are currently studying ways of using sounds for making more sense of the ecological characteristics of landscapes.Researchers are also seeking to reco... |
2 March 2011
09:26 GMT |
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An average person would find it very difficult to focus on a given task if someone was shouting loudly in their ear, or if a colleague at the workplace had a stereo on at full volume. In a new study, it was found that fish have the same problem too, when subjected to unusual noise. They cannot shake off the effects o... |
1 March 2011
09:20 GMT |
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People who sleep heavily can consider themselves lucky. They generally get better rest than others, even in the most noisy conditions possible. For example, these individuals can get a refreshing nap even if they fly in an airplane where countless small children decide to cry at the same time. They are equally &ldquo... |
10 August 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Living in crowded, heavily-circulated areas can have detrimental effects on people's sleep patterns, a new research revealed. The study shows that airplane noise, and the sounds generated by trains, traffic and sirens, can also impair the neurobehavioral performance that people usually have in the morning. The d... |
8 June 2010
05:41 GMT |
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The human brain has over the course of its evolution grown to such intricate complexity, that it continues to puzzle experts to this day. Most likely, it will continue doing the same for decades and centuries to come. In a recent series of studies, investigators at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in... |
5 June 2010
05:16 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking finding with significant implications for a wide array of research fields, engineers at the Princeton University managed to develop a new method of amplifying and clarifying signals carried by light using noise. The concept refers to the portion of the signal that usually gets distorted during tra... |
2 April 2010
05:27 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation currently being carried out by experts at two Bath universities, wearing a crash helmet while riding a bike is indeed advantageous for your safety, but may pose other risks to your health. Additionally, the researchers have discovered up until now, the helmets could also be... |
27 January 2010
20:11 GMT |
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Teenagers around the world fighting their parents for a decent volume level on their stereos can now finally say that they have science on their side. New studies reveal that composing and playing music can be good for their hearing, in that they become more able to discern voices and speech out of noisy backgrounds.... |
20 August 2009
03:11 GMT |
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Though our ears are too insensitive to perceive it, the planet is constantly generating a low-frequency humming noise, which was first discovered with instruments in 1998. At a frequency of around 10 millihertz, the sound is far outside our hearing range, as we can only perceive sounds as low as 20 hertz. Now, scient... |
10 August 2009
03:06 GMT |
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Although many drivers believe they've figured out the source of the infamous squealing noise that brakes make, researchers beg to differ. They say that it's not grit on the discs that causes the noise, and neither the age that the discs themselves have. Investigators into this matter believe that only by ac... |
26 June 2009
13:01 GMT |
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New studies on the human ear have recently revealed the fact that not only are we able to hear things around us, but that our ears also produce an acoustic signal, which is too faint to be picked up without the help of some serious modern-age technology. Highly sensitive microphones have been able to detect that each... |
13 April 2009
09:21 GMT |
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According to a study published in the February 26th issue of the journal Neuron, a publication edited by Cell Press, the human brain has the ability to employ a very sophisticated filtering mechanism, aimed at preventing unimportant sounds from being processed and consuming brain power, especially during very complex... |
26 February 2009
05:14 GMT |
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