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Listening to birdsong significantly reduces anxiety and paranoia, according a new German study. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Published: OCTOBER 16, 2022 15:18 Don’t just watch the birdie – listen to it. Hearing birdsong can not only improve people’s moods but also minimize paranoia, according to…

John Elder Melbourne scientists have developed a screening test for Parkinson’s disease using patients’ voice recordings and an AI algorithm. The software compares the patient’s voice against existing samples of voices of people who have Parkinson’s and those who do…

By RHYS BLAKELY THE TIMES OCTOBER 1, 2022 Hundreds of fake scientific papers from Chinese researchers have been published in British journals, prompting warnings of “industrialised cheating”. The publishing arm of the Institute of Physics, a society founded in London in…

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…