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July 24, 2023

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Controlling Signal Routing in Quantum Information Processing

Routing signals and isolating them against noise and back-reflections are essential in many practical situations in classical communication as well as in quantum processing. In a theory-experimental collaboration, a team has achieved unidirectional transport of signals in pairs of 'one-way ...

声学研究人员Decompose Sound Accurately Into Its Three Basic Components

Any sound can now be perfectly replicated by a combination of whistles, clicks, and hisses, with implications for sound processing across the media ...

Robotic Glove That 'Feels' Lends a 'Hand' to Relearn Playing Piano After a Stroke

A new soft robotic glove is lending a 'hand' and providing hope to piano players who have suffered a disabling stroke or other neurotrauma. Combining flexible tactile sensors, soft actuators and AI, this robotic glove is the first to 'feel' the ...

Wind Farm Noise Exposure Doesn't Wake People Up from Their Slumber More Than Road Traffic Noise

Short exposure to wind farm and road traffic noise triggers a small increase in people waking from their slumber that can fragment their sleep patterns, according to new research. But importantly, the new study also shows that wind farm noise isn't ...
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It's Not as Difficult as You Think to Shout Upwind

Why does it feel so difficult to shout upwind? The sensation is common enough to have found its way into an idiom about not being understood. Researchers wanted a scientific explanation for the ...

Smart Films Help to Make Loudspeakers Lighter and More Energy-Efficient

Scientists are developing intelligent materials that are opening up new avenues in sound reproduction technology: lightweight loudspeakers that use far less energy than their conventional ...

Pulsing Ultrasound Waves Could Someday Remove Microplastics from Waterways

Colorful particles of plastic drift along under the surface of most waterways. These barely visible microplastics -- less than 5 mm wide -- are potentially harmful to aquatic animals and plants, as ...

What Do the Elements Sound Like?

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca -- but what about do, re and mi? Using a technique called data sonification, a recent college graduate has converted the visible light given off by each of the ...

Road Noise Makes Your Blood Pressure Rise -- Literally

If you live near a busy road you might feel like the constant sound of roaring engines, honking horns and wailing sirens makes your blood pressure rise. Now a new study confirms it can do exactly ...

Vocal Tract Size, Shape Dictate Speech Sounds

Researchers explore how anatomical variations in a speaker's vocal tract affect speech production. Using MRI, the team recorded the shape of the vocal tract for 41 speakers as the subjects ...

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Propeller Advance Paves Way for Quiet, Efficient Electric Aviation

Electrification is seen as having an important role to play in the fossil-free aviation of tomorrow. But electric aviation is battling a trade-off dilemma: the more energy-efficient an electric ...

Understanding Sound Direction Estimation in Monaural Hearing

One of the fascinating features of human hearing is its ability to localize sound. While the human ear usually does this with binaural cues, it is, in fact, possible to locate sound direction with ...

First Wearable Device for Vocal Fatigue Senses When Your Voice Needs a Break

Researchers have developed the first smart wearable device to continuously track how much people use their voices, alerting them to overuse before vocal fatigue and potential injury set in. The soft, ...

The Roar and Crackle of Artemis 1

When the Artemis 1 mission was launched in November, it became the world's most powerful rocket, and with liftoff came a loud roar heard miles away. Researchers report noise measurements during ...

A Type of Simple, DIY Air Filter Can Be an Effective Way to Filter out Indoor Air Pollutants

A study found that inexpensive, easy-to-assemble Corsi-Rosenthal boxes can help reduce exposure to indoor air pollutants. The air filters have already been shown to reduce particles carrying the ...

Brain Flexibility May Hasten Hearing Improvements from Cochlear Implants

Kickstarting the brain's natural ability to adjust to new circumstances, or neuroplasticity, improves how effectively a cochlear implant can restore hearing loss, a new study in deaf rats shows. ...

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Wireless Earphones as Inexpensive Hearing Aids

Some commercial earbuds can perform as well as hearing aids. The result could help a large proportion of people with hearing loss access more affordable sound amplification ...

Want to Fire Up the Dance Floor? Play Low-Frequency Bass

To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...

Automatic Speaker Recognition Technology Outperforms Human Listeners in the Courtroom

The forensic-voice-comparison system, based on state-of-the-art automatic-speaker-recognition technology, outperformed all the ...

Using Sound to Model the World

Researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that captures and models the underlying acoustics of a scene from a limited number of sound recordings. The system can accurately simulate what ...

Capturing and Analyzing Subtle Combination Tones Produced by Violins

When two musical notes are played simultaneously, the human ear can perceive weak additional tones called combination tones. While less perceivable, objective combination tones are also generated by ...

How Low-Cost Earbuds Can Make Newborn Hearing Screening Accessible

Researchers have created a newborn hearing screening system that uses cheap earbuds and a smartphone instead of an expensive commercial ...

Skin-Attachable Auditory Sensor That Functions Even in Noisy Environments

A research team has developed a skin-attachable auditory sensor, which recognizes human voices in noisy environments and when users wear facemasks. The new sensor will be useful in microphones that ...

Would Traffic Noise from Future Flying Cars Cause Stress?

Study shows that not only are loud vehicles flying overhead a cause of noise pollution-related stress, the effect of that stress remains on the body even after noise levels have ...

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