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Schizophrenia: When Hallucinatory Voices Suppress Real Ones, New Electronic Application May Help
February 3, 2012 — When a patient afflicted with schizophrenia hears inner voices something is taking place inside the brain that prevents the individual from perceiving real voices. A simple electronic application may ... > full story -
New Way to Study Ground Fractures
February 2, 2012 — Geophysics researchers have created a new way to study fractures by producing elastic waves, or vibrations, through using high-intensity light focused directly on the fracture ... > full story -
Rap Music Powers Rhythmic Action of Medical Sensor
January 26, 2012 — The driving bass rhythm of rap music can be harnessed to power a new type of miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the ... > full story -
Using Hollywood Technology to Unlock the Secret of Pianist's Sounds
January 20, 2012 — University of Southampton academics are pioneering a new way of using motion capture technology to examine the way pianists play the piano. By using a unique kinematic measurement technique, known as ... > full story -
Almost Noiseless Nanomechanical Microwave Amplifier
December 15, 2011 — Physicists have shown how a nanomechanical oscillator can be used for detection and amplification of feeble radio waves or microwaves. A measurement using such a tiny device, resembling a ... > full story -
Patterns Seen in Spider Silk and Melodies Connected
December 8, 2011 — Using a new mathematical methodology, researchers have created a scientifically rigorous analogy showing the similarities between the physical structure of spider silk and the sonic structure of a ... > full story -
Sound, Digested: New Software Tool Provides Unprecedented Searches of Sound, from Musical Riffs to Gunshots
November 9, 2011 — Audio engineers have developed a novel artificial intelligence system for understanding and indexing sound, a unique tool for both finding and matching previously un-labeled audio ... > full story -
Gravitational Waves That Are 'Sounds of the Universe'
October 3, 2011 — Einstein wrote about them, and we're still looking for them -- gravitational waves, which are small ripples in the fabric of space-time, that many consider to be the sounds of our universe. Just as ... > full story -
Acoustic Cloak: Closer to Achieving the Acoustic Undetectability of Objects
September 20, 2011 — Researchers have taken another step towards achieving what is known as "acoustic undetectability". It is a new prototype two-dimensional acoustic cloak that can make sound waves with a specific ... > full story -
New Insight Into How Disordered Solids Deform
August 31, 2011 — In solid materials with regular atomic structures, figuring out weak points where the material will break under stress is relatively easy. But for disordered solids, like glass or sand, their ... > full story -
Build Music With Blocks: Audio D-Touch
August 24, 2011 — Researchers have developed a new way to generate music and control ... > full story -
Acoustic Cloaking Device Echoes Advances in Optical Cloaking
August 15, 2011 — Sound waves that would normally bounce and scatter off objects may be coaxed into slipping past them as if they weren't there, according to a new study that suggests the potential of an acoustical ... > full story
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