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Studies show that people who use earphones often with high volumes have worse hearing than those who don’t use earphones. By MAARIV ONLINE MARCH 6, 2023 Illustrative image of a woman using headphones. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) Earphones have become a part of our daily routine, whether you use them to listen to music or podcasts or to…

In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth. By WALLA! HEALTH FEBRUARY 19, 2023 Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of…

By 9News Staff A long-standing mystery about snakes has been solved, with a team of Australian researchers discovering the reptiles can hear more than previously believed. The University of Queensland-led study, published today, found snakes can hear and react to airborne sound, as well as ground vibrations. In busts a widely held myth that snakes are deaf, Dr Christina Zdenek,…

The louder the noise from a busy road, close to where you live, the worse your tinnitus. Photo: Getty John Elder People with tinnitus – the phantom ringing in your ears – tend to believe they’re paying the price for attending too many loud rock concerts. Or a job on the roads with a jackhammer. But…

By Ariel Grossman, NoCamels – Tech understands lyrics to choose songs for entertainment industry. Finding the right song for the right moment can be a needle-in-a-haystack job for TV and movie execs. A track that just about does the job isn’t going to cut it in the next Netflix mini-series. So they’re faced with trawling thousands of…

By Maddy Shaw Roberts The particular species of bat shares a technique used by only two types of human vocalist – death metal, and Tuvan throat singers. Few human singers can boast a vocal range of more than a few octaves – Luciano Pavarotti boasted an operatic range of two and a half thunderous octaves, while Mariah Carey’s…

A new non-invasive technology using low-frequency nanobubble-enhanced ultrasound mechanotherapy has shown success in animal models. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH The Tel Aviv University research team behind the new study on non-invasive cancer treatment. (photo credit: TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY) A combination of low-frequency ultrasound and injected nanobubbles may work to remove malignant tumors in a non-invasive way, as observed in…

In congestive heart failure study with recovered patients who used HearO, its technology predicts some 82% of relapses, catching them on average 18 days before they occur By NATHAN JEFFAY     Illustrative image: a medic monitors a patient and checked his heart rate (Zinkevych via iStock by Getty Images) A new Israeli app can sound the alarm…

John Elder When many Australians were subject to hard lockdowns, access to nature in the form of parks and public gardens and beaches was significantly restricted. This was especially the case in Melbourne, where outdoor exercise was sometimes restricted to an hour a day. It meant that a simple remedy for some of the mental…

By MICHAEL HILLtoday WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he’d bite the piano. Pressing his teeth into the wood of phonographs and pianos helped Edison experience…