Read Articles on Acoustics, Vibration, and Noise Control

There are some tricks that will make meals on the plane tastier. Wearing headphones for example… By WALLA! SEPTEMBER 15, 2022 Passengers board an airplane (photo credit: FLICKR). Getting a meal during your flight? Before you start biting, it is highly recommended to…

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Elderly man (illustrative) (photo credit: PIXABAY) Cognitive decline in the elderly can be measured using musical tests and a portable electroencephalography (EEG) machine while the subject performs simple tasks, according to researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The 15-minute…

From construction projects to busy roads, aeroplanes and railways, human noise is everywhere. It is an invisible cause of stress, posing serious risks to human health and wellbeing. However, noise also harms animals living in close contact with humans, in homes,…

Dr Pin-Hsin Lin was warming up before she was due to teach a piano lesson in her Californian apartment, when a bullet narrowly missed her and hit a lamp on her piano. The bullet had come from the ceiling, where her upstairs…

By Maddy Shaw Roberts How low can he go? Turns out, ludicrously, earth-shatteringly low… Since 2012, Tim Storms has held the world record for the lowest ever vocal note – that’s a deliciously gravelly G -7 (0.189 Hz), which is eight octaves…

Music is becoming more widely recognized as a pain management tool, but scientists still question which aspect of the music is driving the pain-killing benefits. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF AUGUST 7, 2022 Man listening to music with headphones (Illustrative) (photo credit:…

E.V.s are virtually silent, so acoustic designers are creating alerts for them. A symphony—or a cacophony—of car noise could be coming to city streets. By John Seabrook The New Yorker August 8 2022 Issue I sleep on the second floor, in a bedroom facing a residential…

THE SO-CALLED CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE in downtown Tulsa Oklohoma is marked by a small concrete circle in the middle of a larger circle of bricks. It’s not much to look at, but looking isn’t really the point. The “Center of the Universe” is a little-known mysterious acoustic phenomenon.…

Exposure to loud noise is the most common preventable cause of hearing loss. Earplugs or earmuffs can protect your hearing, but sometimes loud noises happen too quickly to prevent damage. Scientists funded by the National Institutes of Health might be…

Frog-eating bats could recognize ringtones indicating a food reward up to four years later. There are certain skills that once we acquire them, we rarely have to relearn them, like riding a bike or looking both ways before crossing a…