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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 […]
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By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel What happens when zoologists and a computer chip engineer meet at a Tel Aviv University campus cafe? No, this isn’t a joke – it happened to be a cross-faculty project that ended up combining…
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JERUSALEM (JNS/Israel21c) – Delivering healthy genetic material into the inner ear cells of mice with a genetic defect that causes deafness enables the cells to function normally, according to a new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU). The novel treatment…
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Israeli scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a gene therapy for deafness, a breakthrough that may help in the treatment of children with hearing loss. The innovative therapy, replacing defective genes with healthy genes, may prevent deafness in children…
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There are so many speculations about this virus and the damage inflicted by it, and we have shown that at least in the auditory system no damage was detected,” Prof. Karen Avraham said. By SARAH CHEMLA DECEMBER 17, 2020 Hearing Hero…
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Israeli researchers have for the first time shown that the organization of hair cells is driven by mechanical forces like how atoms are organized into a crystal. By JOSHUA ROBBIN MARKS/THE MEDIA LINE NOVEMBER 26, 2020 07:34 Prof. David Sprinzak (photo…
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‘Sound beaming’ 3-D technology from Noveto Systems tracks ear and sends it audio using ultrasonic waves, creating personal listening pockets By LOUISE DIXON13 November 2020 Illustrative image of Noveto Systems’ SoundBeamer technology, which beams audio straight to your head, without the…
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