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For individuals who have congenital or acquired speech impairments, communicating with those around them can be very tough. Now, a team of experts believes it's on the right track towards developing a solution that will enable these people to talk to others just like before.
A new system being developed at the... |
1 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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The first time I saw this video, my jaw literally dropped. I mean, just check out what this microphone can do. Just attach it to any rigid surface, and it can produce sounds that you can record afterwards. If you're a music producer, then you can understand what this means for your sounds.
Researchers Bruno Zam... |
4 January 2012
06:04 GMT |
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In a new study, investigators from the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, France, managed to determine the specific brain abnormality that underlies the development of dyslexia. The team learned that auditory signal processing pathways display a glitch that is the most likely cause of the condition. The findings are... |
23 December 2011
03:54 GMT |
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Snakes are notorious for being able to hear even though they lack an external ear. Scientists have been puzzled at how that is possible for quite some time, and recently they were able to figure out that the reptiles' heads vibrate.
The inner ear picks up these vibrations, and turns them into sound sensations.... |
22 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Tiny hairs on the legs of spiders apparently act as individual ears, allowing the creature to feel the moves their prey makes through the air. Thus far, researchers believes that all of these hairs were acting as components for a single, large ear that was the entire exoskeleton protecting spiders.
This idea was ref... |
15 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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All pets have their unique ways of communicating their intentions to us, but dogs are by far the most expressive. Over 11,000 years of cohabitation, they have learned that sounds and expressions move us the most, making them more likely to receive their favorite tricks.
The dog in this video is no different. Instinc... |
13 December 2011
06:46 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the San Francisco, California-based Imagine Research has just released MediaMined, a new artificial intelligence system that is capable of understanding and indexing sound.
The tool may be used for finding and matching audio files that have not been previously labeled. Audio engineers wit... |
10 November 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Shielding a room against excessive noises is tremendously hard to do, given that the surfaces of most materials used in interior design do not absorb sound waves. Placing heavy velvet curtains all over the place is also not an option, but a new lightweight curtain material could fulfill this role. The innovation belo... |
4 May 2011
05:23 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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At Chavín de Huántar, in Peru, the ancestors of the Inca people were using sawed-off conches shells more than 3,000 years ago, in the underground corridors of their temple. No one really know why these objects were used ceremonially, but a team of researchers at Stanford is seeking to clear this mystery... |
8 February 2011
03:22 GMT |
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A team of researchers in the United States believe that analyzing the natural sounds produced by the ocean could be used as a method of detecting changes in some of its basic traits, such as for example temperature, salinity, current disposition and seafloor topography.The oceans are renowned for their variability, i... |
1 December 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Over the past ten years or so, a researcher at the University of Bristol has kept a close ear on the sounds that are produced naturally in and around coral reefs, by fish, urchins and the corals themselves. These noises can be used as indicators of how healthy the reefs are as a whole.The expert has been focusing his... |
29 November 2010
06:43 GMT |
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Listening to coral reefs can apparently be used as a method of keeping tabs on the health of both corals and other marine species living in or around them, a new scientific investigation shows. The conclusion belongs to a report that was released by the University of Bristol's School of Biological Sciences, and ... |
20 September 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of Salford and the University of Huddersfield managed to conduct an interesting study of the ancient ruins of Stonehenge, in which they determined the acoustical “impulse response” the structure has. Trevor Cox, a researcher at the University of Salford, collaborated wit... |
27 August 2010
07:51 GMT |
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Researchers at the Trondheim-based company Nacre AS some time ago developed a new system for protecting the ears against loud noises. Their innovation is currently being used in applications varying from the military to the oil industry. Fro example, Norway’s largest company, Statoil ASA, is currently peddling ... |
20 August 2010
09:10 GMT |
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Researchers University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), led by expert and psychology lecturer Nick Perham, have recently concluded a new study on how music affects the way we perform tasks. For many years, scientists have known that listening to our favorite tunes can have a host of beneficial effects on our bodie... |
28 July 2010
06:49 GMT |
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In a recent study conducted by an international science team, it was revealed that bottlenose dolphins exhibit very complex communications patterns that are still a mystery to researchers. According to the new data, it would appear that the repertoire that the creatures use is highly complex, and also filled with nua... |
9 June 2010
10:26 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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Scientists have recently discovered that baby coral reefs tend to use special sounds as reference points in swimming to an already-established reef. While still in their larval from, the animals “listen” carefully to the sounds various other creatures living around reefs make, and then move directly towar... |
17 May 2010
10:27 GMT |
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When music fans talk about “hot sounds,” they have an entirely different thing in mind than physicists. The latter group is thinking about a host of acoustic phenomena that are effective in removing heat from various electronic devices. Now, experts at the Rice University have identified a process in whic... |
29 April 2010
09:24 GMT |
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In the case of musicians, healthcare experts have known for a long time that prolonged exposure to loud noises can have severe consequences on these individuals' hearing. But, until now, most experts believed that the correlation was only true in the case of those playing modern music, the type that uses instrum... |
28 April 2010
10:42 GMT |
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Conducting head counts on various animal species is a very important aspect of biology. The data provide environmentalist groups and protection agencies with the necessary information they need to propose and sustain conservation programs. However, performing a census is not always easy. Some species prefer to remain... |
27 April 2010
09:59 GMT |
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Bats are among the most interesting animals to researchers, mostly because they get around using echolocation, while being completely blind. Though they use approximately the same technique as dolphins, theirs evolved separately, and so comparative studies also yield data on how evolution acted in these two species, ... |
30 March 2010
17:01 GMT |
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A team of investigators from the Birkbeck College, in London, the United Kingdom, was recently able to determine that small children become capable of discerning adults' moods by the tone of their voices when they reach the age of 7 months. Additionally, it was also found that they can do this by using the same ... |
25 March 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Experts investigating the behavior of babies have recently demonstrated that infants love a beat. According to the new research, small children tend to get up and dance, bouncing up and down every time they hear rhythms, but this does not happen when they hear speech. The results of the study could mean that infants ... |
16 March 2010
05:26 GMT |
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At the micro- and nano-scales, a large number of events take place at any given time. Inside living cells the amount of reactions that take place, for example, is exceedingly large and complex, and science has been trying to keep up through new discoveries for many years. However, experts knew that they were limited ... |
1 March 2010
06:39 GMT |
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A group of experts has recently managed to conclude a new project, which revolved around turning data on solar winds into music, or an acoustical representation of the regular graphs, charts and numbers. The goal of this investigation is to discover information that could otherwise get lost in the crowd, and to provi... |
27 February 2010
05:01 GMT |
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Experts have for the first time ever been able to develop so-called lasers with a twist, which are capable of emitting sounds rather than light. The system is based on very small drum heads, and a number of vibrating towers, which allow scientists to fulfill this goal. Laser stands for light amplification by stimulat... |
26 February 2010
10:47 GMT |
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Children who play a musical instrument are apparently able to distinguish sounds much better in a noisy environment, and also tend to be better at detecting the subtle changes in the tone of a person they are conversing with. Researchers believe that this increased ability comes from the fact that music can enhance t... |
22 February 2010
15:01 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Glasgow have determined following a new investigation that people in general find average voices to be the most appealing. At the university, researchers in the Department of Psychology have studied what is known as vocal attractiveness, a field that aims at understanding precisely how... |
26 January 2010
06:44 GMT |
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Undoubtedly, one of the greatest problems facing a potential human colony on Mars or the Moon is dust. This is especially true in the case of the Red Planet, which is covered in the stuff. Dust devils and sand storms are common occurrences, and these natural events have the ability to significantly disrupt any type o... |
20 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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When listening to good music, people usually emerge in a different Universe, created by the composer and artist playing the tracks. Our brains are capable of such a high degree of abstraction that we are able to identify ourselves with elements of our favorite songs, and get transposed in a state that allows us to &l... |
16 January 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Scientists were surprised to find out recently that playing Mozart's music to prematurely born babies boosted their growth rate, and helped them survive their ordeal better than children who were played no such music. The work also revealed that the children who listened to classical music tended to become stron... |
14 January 2010
06:53 GMT |
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A music therapist now from the University of Haifa proved recently that music therapy can assist children's rehabilitation process toward language acquisition, especially in toddlers who have just undergone a cochlear-transplant procedure. Getting used to the artificial device is very difficult, and even more so... |
7 January 2010
10:59 GMT |
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According to a new paper released by German researchers on Monday, it may be that custom music therapy could relieve the effects of tinnitus. The condition refers to when people experience ringing in their ears, without any external source creating the noise. This sound running in the background is experienced by mos... |
30 December 2009
22:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Duke University believe they may have found the answer to why musical perception is associated with various moods and emotions, and vice-versa, something that music producers have known for a long time. Any musician knows that minor chords sound sad and depressing, whereas major ones sound happy and... |
3 December 2009
05:47 GMT |
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A scientist at the Orebro University in Sweden has recently developed a new method of allowing severely hearing-impaired people to regain at least a part of their former sense. The expert, engineering researcher Parivash Ranjbar, has developed a machine that is capable of transposing sounds into vibrations that, when... |
30 November 2009
09:46 GMT |
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Scientists at the Northwestern University have recently released the conclusion of a new study, showing that music lessons may help those people seeking to be able to distinguish sounds better in loud situations. The investigation comes on the heels of a previous one, which demonstrated that people who played, or had... |
13 November 2009
04:33 GMT |
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In a find that could have massive implications for handling people suffering from speech disorders, experts at the Yale-affiliated Haskins Laboratories have determined that learning how to speak also changes the way sounds are heard in the human brain. The discovery, which is detailed in this week's issue of the... |
3 November 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Robots that can see are nothing new, as they've been around for quite some time now. And we're not talking about machines such as the rover Spirit, which uses its cameras to inform its human operators about what it's doing, but about robots that are able to identify and move around an obstacle all on t... |
27 October 2009
04:39 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that the sound of approaching footsteps makes us more efficient at seeing in the dark. The process of boosting the visual acuity takes place even before we can consciously make out the sounds, a team of scientists from the University of Glasgow reports. The experts hypot... |
16 October 2009
08:59 GMT |
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Each Group of 20 (G20) meeting attracts numerous anti-globalization protesters, and authorities have a hard time keeping things under control. Violent clashes occur very often, and the police have been forced to deploy new weapons to the urban battlefield, in addition to the usual water cannons and rubber bullets. As... |
26 September 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Experts at the LENA Foundation have recently announced the development of a new device that can spot autism at a very early age. According to their press release, the machine is able to detect the disease in children as small as two years old, which is a progress from the 5.7 years usual methods take. It relies on id... |
15 September 2009
14:51 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that the human brain is in the habit of processing visual and audio information in similar manners, as in it uses the same type of “encryption” for both types of information. The new study was conducted using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)... |
13 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, are tiny devices able to perform highly-complex tasks. Experts at the Purdue University are now planning to use them to create filters for electronic signals, to be used most commonly in mobile phones, but also in other, more exotic applications. The new class of systems curre... |
11 August 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Ultrasound imaging has been used for quite some time now for various types of screening, but is most renowned for giving would-be mothers a view of their unborn children. Up to this point, employing it for investigation purposes has been the sole means of putting the technology to good use in the medical field, but ... |
29 July 2009
02:28 GMT |
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European researchers are currently engaged in a line of study that could eventually result in improved audio systems, to be used during videoconferences or in homes, cars, and offices. The new tool system will essentially allow developers to stop focusing on how to make their creations work on various types of embedd... |
25 July 2009
04:14 GMT |
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Distinguishing what types of objects surround you in the dark could prove to come in handy in various situations, as, for example, when working in an environment where you have little visibility and the eyes don't help you much. Once again taking their inspiration from the animal world, scientists have recently ... |
1 July 2009
03:35 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Illinois have just created a new type of acoustic metamaterial, which can pave the way for applications such as better ultrasound scans, non-invasive building risk assessment, structural integrity testings, and new types of underwater stealth technologies.UI Professor of Mechanical Scienc... |
25 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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