Archive for July 2021

By: Norman

Residents who live above underground construction for the WestConnex project say they were offered noise-cancelling headphones to keep quiet over the racket. Work is underway underneath Waterloo Street in Rozelle in Sydney’s Inner West and locals say the noise is non-stop. “Roaring, rolling thunder day and night,” David Anderson told 9News. When Mr Anderson complained […]

By: Norman

By Sophie Aubrey With our lives increasingly spent plugged into our phones and computers, you possibly find your ears are frequently sporting headphones. As it stands, one in six Australians suffers from hearing loss, and the number is expected to rise to one in four by 2050, says Professor David McAlpine, the academic director of Macquarie University Hearing. […]

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Resembling a futuristic paper airplane, this aircraft holds the secret to quiet supersonic commercial travel over land. The X-plane aims to turn the sonic boom associated with supersonic flight into more of a sonic heartbeat. The Bell X-1, piloted by U.S. Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager, reached 700 mph on Oct. 14, 1947. At […]

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Construction noise from pile drilling for the new Granite Island causeway is driving mother whales away during birthing season, conservationists say. Clare PeddieClimate & Environment Editor A southern right whale has returned back to the sea after a brief stay in Wallace Lake on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. WHALE watchers and […]

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Libby (Elizabeth) Sander, Bond University July 5, 2021 If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it. Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. Employee complaints about this design are rife. Yet there is little experimental research investigating the effects of […]