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Two engineering students from George Mason University have invented a new fire extinguisher, capable of putting out flames by manipulating sound waves. The sonic fire extinguisher by two final-year undergraduate engineering students, Seth Robertson and Viet Tran, uses sound waves…

Is It Safe to Turn Down the Volume of Hospital Alarms? New Study Chimes In: ‘Yes’ Hong Kong—The classic belief that hospital alarms should be loud might be a mistake, a new study suggests. The overabundance and high volume of…

November 29, 2016  MELBOURNE’S outer southeast is Victoria’s noisy car capital, with hundreds of drivers nabbed for exceeding restrictions. Holden Commodores and sporty Nissan Skylines are the most common ear-­splitters. Blokes are almost ­always behind the wheel. Environment Protection Authority…

(Left to right): M. Nafi Toksöz, professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS); Oral Buyukozturk, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE); and Hao Sun, a postdoc in CEE. The …more When a…

Tuning the instrument: Spider webs as vibration transmission structures Summary: Two years ago, scientists revealed that, when plucked like a guitar string, spider silk transmits vibrations across a wide range of frequencies, carrying information about prey, mates and even the…

Even if they don’t know its name, its purpose, or its location, most people can see a picture of the Sydney Opera House and instantly recognize it as familiar. It is near the top of the list with other buildings…

Ambient noise is a modern-day scourge. It robs you of your concentration, reduces your productivity, distracts your attention and may even threaten your sanity or your life. For the business traveller or anyone who simply works in a noisy environment, achieving…

James Adonis is one of Australia’s best-known people-management thinkers Office noise polluters smash the keyboard with their fingers and have their radio set to an unsociable volume. As I write this sentence, I can hear the roar of a truck…

We can only warn them! Scores of millennials could be deaf by the time they reach 40 – because they’re listening to music too loud, claims a new study by a team at the University of Sao Paulo’s Medical School…

LOUD busking will be banned along a key CBD street amid hundreds of complaints about excessive noise. Under a three-month City of Melbourne trial, Swanston St will be off-limits to amplified performances from August 1, and the ban could become…