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Making Chaos Visible: As Chaos Celebrates Its 50th Birthday, Biophysicist Christian Herbst Develops a New Method to Visualize It
Exactly 50 years after the
US-American meteorologist
Edward Lorenz discovered
chaos (remember the
"butterfly effect?") the
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How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages
Individuals who learn two
languages at an early age
seem to switch back and
forth between separate
"sound systems" for each
language, according to new
research. The research
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Echolocation: Blind People Have the Potential to Use Their 'Inner Bat' to Locate Objects, Study Finds
New research shows that
blind and visually impaired
people have the potential to
use echolocation, similar to
that used by bats and
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Bach to the Blues, Our Emotions Match Music to Colors
Whether we're listening to
Bach or the blues, our
brains are wired to make
music-color connections
depending on how the
melodies make us feel,
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- Making Chaos Visible: As Chaos Celebrates Its 50th Birthday, Biophysicist Christian Herbst Develops a New Method to Visualize It
- How Bilinguals Switch Between Languages
- Echolocation: Blind People Have the Potential to Use Their 'Inner Bat' to Locate Objects, Study Finds
- Bach to the Blues, Our Emotions Match Music to Colors
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How a Hollywood Box Office Success Can Translate Internationally
May 22, 2013 — A researchers is looking at why some Hollywood movies are successful in the international box ... > full story -
Crickets' Calling Song Hits the High Notes
May 16, 2013 — Research has detailed how acoustic communication has evolved within a unique species of cricket which exploits extremely high frequency harmonics to ... > full story -
NASA Completes First Part of Webb Telescope's 'Eye Surgery' Operation
May 15, 2013 — Much like the inside of an operating room, in the clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., engineers worked meticulously to implant part of the eyes of the James Webb Space ... > full story -
Using Earthquake Sensors to Track Endangered Whales
May 13, 2013 — Oceanographers used data from seafloor seismometers to analyze more than 300,000 fin-whale calls. By triangulating the position they created more than 150 tracks off the Pacific Northwest ... > full story -
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Background Noise in the Operating Room Can Impair Surgical Team Communication
May 10, 2013 — To assess the effects of ambient noise on communication in the operating room, investigators created a noise environment similar to that of an OR and tested 15 ... > full story -
World's Most Extreme Hearing Animal: The Greater Wax Moth
May 8, 2013 — Researchers have discovered that the greater wax moth is capable of sensing sound frequencies of up to 300 kHz -- the highest recorded frequency sensitivity of any animal in the natural ... > full story -
Do Bats Know Voices of Friends They Hang out With? Bats May Recognize Voices of Other Bats
May 7, 2013 — Is it possible that mammals have the ability to recognize individuals of the same species, whom they know well, by their voice? A new study has found that even in nocturnal, fast-moving animals such ... > full story -
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Hearing the Russian Meteor, in America: Sound Arrived in 10 Hours, Lasted 10 More
May 3, 2013 — How powerful was February's meteor that crashed into Russia? Strong enough that its explosive entry into our atmosphere was detected almost 6,000 miles away in Lilburn, Ga., by infrasound sensors -- ... > full story -
How Brain's Auditory Center Transmits Information for Decisions, Actions
May 1, 2013 — When a pedestrian hears the screech of a car's brakes, she has to decide whether, and if so, how, to move in response. Is the action taking place blocks away, or 20 feet to the left? One of the ... > full story -
Musical Memory Deficits Start in Auditory Cortex
April 30, 2013 — Congenital amusia is a disorder characterized by impaired musical skills, which can extend to an inability to recognize very familiar tunes. The neural bases of this deficit are now being deciphered. ... > full story
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