Acoustics News

Posted February 8, 2012:

• Champagne Gases Different out of a Flute Versus Coupe: Glass Type Affects Gas Release, Likely Influencing the Drinking Experience

Posted February 3, 2012:

• Schizophrenia: When Hallucinatory Voices Suppress Real Ones, New Electronic Application May Help

Posted February 2, 2012:

• New Way to Study Ground Fractures

Posted January 26, 2012:

• Rap Music Powers Rhythmic Action of Medical Sensor

Posted January 20, 2012:

• Using Hollywood Technology to Unlock the Secret of Pianist's Sounds

Posted December 15, 2011:

• Almost Noiseless Nanomechanical Microwave Amplifier

Posted December 8, 2011:

• Patterns Seen in Spider Silk and Melodies Connected

Posted November 9, 2011:

• Sound, Digested: New Software Tool Provides Unprecedented Searches of Sound, from Musical Riffs to Gunshots

Posted October 3, 2011:

• Gravitational Waves That Are 'Sounds of the Universe'

Posted September 20, 2011:

• Acoustic Cloak: Closer to Achieving the Acoustic Undetectability of Objects

Posted August 31, 2011:

• New Insight Into How Disordered Solids Deform

Posted August 24, 2011:

• Build Music With Blocks: Audio D-Touch

Posted August 15, 2011:

• Acoustic Cloaking Device Echoes Advances in Optical Cloaking

Posted July 29, 2011:

• Motorcycle Helmets Hard on Hearing

Posted July 26, 2011:

• Engineers Develop One-Way Transmission System for Sound Waves

Posted July 17, 2011:

• Early Talking Doll Recording Discovered

Posted July 14, 2011:

• New Material Could Offer Hope to Those With No Voice

Posted July 11, 2011:

• The Perfect Connection Between Guitar and Computer

Posted June 30, 2011:

• Researchers Map the Physics of Tibetan Singing Bowls

Posted June 23, 2011:

• 'Orca Ears' Inspire Researchers to Develop Ultrasensitive Undersea Microphone

Posted June 13, 2011:

• New Software 'Hearing Dummies' Pave the Way for Tailor-Made Hearing Aids

Posted June 8, 2011:

• Tuning 'Metasurface' With Fluid in New Concept for Sensing and Chemistry

Posted June 1, 2011:

• Noise Research to Combat 'Wind Turbine Syndrome'

Posted May 26, 2011:

• Superior Sound for Telephones, Mobile and Related Devices

Posted May 25, 2011:

• Listening With One Atom: New Record for Measuring Magnetic Vibrations Using the Spin of a Single Atom

Posted May 13, 2011:

• Sound Safety: Novel Device With Rock 'N' Roll Roots May Protect Listeners from Potential Dangers of Personal Listening Devices and Hearing Aids

Posted May 3, 2011:

• Curtains That Block Noise

Posted March 25, 2011:

• Universal Property of Music Discovered

Posted March 21, 2011:

• Is That 911 Call a Real Emergency? Emotion Detector Made for Call Centers

Posted March 9, 2011:

• High-Volume Portable Music Players May Impair Ability to Clearly Discriminate Sounds

Posted March 8, 2011:

• How Long Does a Tuning Fork Ring?

Posted March 1, 2011:

• New Scientific Field Will Study Ecological Importance of Sounds

Posted February 28, 2011:

• Key to Safer Remote Detection of Dangerous Materials

Posted February 14, 2011:

• New Wireless Technology Developed for Faster, More Efficient Networks

Posted January 11, 2011:

• Off-the-Shelf Electronics Turn Up Gain on Spectroscopy

Posted January 6, 2011:

• Is Your Convertible Damaging Your Hearing?

Posted January 5, 2011:

• Newly Developed Cloak Hides Underwater Objects from Sonar

Posted December 13, 2010:

• Assessing the Environmental Effects of Tidal Turbines

Posted November 21, 2010:

• Air Flows in Mechanical Device Reveal Secrets of Speech Pathology

Posted November 11, 2010:

• Cleaner Stoves for Developing Countries, Thanks to Heat-Powered Fan Design

Posted November 10, 2010:

• Novel Metamaterial Vastly Improves Quality of Ultrasound Imaging

Posted October 20, 2010:

• World's Smallest on-Chip Low-Pass Filter Developed

Posted October 12, 2010:

• Computer Model to Calculate Noise Levels Along the Swiss Rail Network
• Measurement Scientists Set a New Standard in 3-D Ears

Posted October 5, 2010:

• Voice Phishing: System to Trace Telephone Call Paths Across Multiple Networks Developed

Posted September 28, 2010:

• Audio Zooming to Enhance TV Viewing
• Making Music on a Microscopic Scale

Posted September 27, 2010:

• Let Your Fingers Do the Driving: If You Don't Hear Directions, You Can Feel Them

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