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Assessing the Environmental Effects of Tidal Turbines
December 13, 2010 — A tidal energy demonstration project in Puget Sound, the first on the US West Coast, will help determine the environmental effects of underwater turbines. Researchers devising monitoring methods say ... > full story -
Air Flows in Mechanical Device Reveal Secrets of Speech Pathology
November 21, 2010 — A mechanical model of human vocal folds and new observations may lead to new devices to help people afflicted with vocal fold ... > full story -
Cleaner Stoves for Developing Countries, Thanks to Heat-Powered Fan Design
November 11, 2010 — Researchers are helping design a better cook stove for people in developing ... > full story -
Novel Metamaterial Vastly Improves Quality of Ultrasound Imaging
November 10, 2010 — A new copper "metamaterial" can overcome some of the limitations of acoustic microscopes and imagers, including ultrasound imagers. Researchers have designed and built a metamaterial that improves ... > full story -
World's Smallest on-Chip Low-Pass Filter Developed
October 20, 2010 — A research team from Singapore has successfully designed the world's smallest on-chip low-pass filter which is 1,000 times smaller than existing off-chip ... > full story -
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Computer Model to Calculate Noise Levels Along the Swiss Rail Network
October 12, 2010 — Acoustic specialists have developed a computer model which allows them to calculate noise levels along the entire Swiss rail network. The program describes how much sound is radiated and how it is ... > full story -
Measurement Scientists Set a New Standard in 3-D Ears
October 12, 2010 — Scientists have developed a means of representing a 3-D model ear, to help redefine the standard for a pinna simulator (the pinna is the outer part of the ear) -- used to measure sound in the way we ... > full story -
Voice Phishing: System to Trace Telephone Call Paths Across Multiple Networks Developed
October 5, 2010 — Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world's voice systems, and researchers have found a way to tag fraudulent calls with a digital "fingerprint" that will help separate legitimate ... > full story -
Audio Zooming to Enhance TV Viewing
September 28, 2010 — New technology developed in Norway makes it possible to zoom in on sound in much the same way that photographers can zoom in on an image. Television is just one area of application. Physicists ... > full story -
Making Music on a Microscopic Scale
September 28, 2010 — Strings a fraction of the thickness of a human hair, with microscopic weights to pluck them: Researchers and students have succeeded in constructing the first musical instrument with dimensions ... > full story -
Let Your Fingers Do the Driving: If You Don't Hear Directions, You Can Feel Them
September 27, 2010 — If drivers are yakking on cell phones and don't hear spoken instructions to turn left or right from a passenger or navigation system, they still can get directions from devices that are mounted on ... > full story -
Silent Electric Vehicles Made Safer
September 21, 2010 — A little green van called ELVIN is whizzing around the University of Warwick as part of a major research project aimed at tackling the safety issues linked to the lack of sound from electric ... > full story
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