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Scientists are using sound speakers in a bid to save the Great Barrier Reef Researcher Tim Gordon deploys an underwater loudspeaker on a coral reef. Photo: University of Exeter Scientists have used underwater loudspeakers to entice fish to move back…

From tiny insects to large marine mammals, animals are affected by noise in ways that might threaten their survival Bats flying with Houston skyline in backgroundCity noise can throw off a bat’s ability to use echolocation. (Richard Eden / Getty…

Recently I attended the Annual AAS conference down in Cape Schanck, Victoria. I think it was a very successful conference, one of the better ones, even though, being a member of the Vic Division, one could argue that I was…

Samantha Dick Losing your hearing is a downer, sure, but there’s something else you should know: you could be losing your mind, too. US researchers have found a link between hearing loss and poorer cognition in people over 50, even…

By Alex Taylor and Ben Feuerherd October 18, 2019 A Harlem man who’d argued with the couple upstairs for a decade over noise “snapped” on Friday, shooting them dead, lighting his own apartment on fire, and then fatally shooting himself…

What can really cause hearing loss? Photo: Getty Listen up – it’s time to face the facts. Hearing loss is more common than you think – it actually affects one in seven Australians around the country*. Instead of listening to…

My face feels hot, and strangely numb. Then, a slight tingling sensation starts. It’s not comfortable, but I would liken it to the final five seconds of waking up a foot you’ve sat on for too long. Are we up…

You hear your spouse breathing nearby and you instantly get angry. Your 6-year-old yawns and it triggers a fight-or-flight reaction in you. You avoid restaurants because you can’t stand the sound of chewing. Sounds other people don’t even seem to…

GENEVA (Reuters) – Carmakers are dreaming up futuristic electric car engine sounds to ensure that pedestrians can hear vehicles that lack audible cues like high-revving, howling combustion engines, senior executives at the Geneva car show said. The Audi “Q4 e-tron…

by Tofi Stoler / CTech CTech – You are in your car with your four-year-old and your 12-year-old who are constantly arguing about which track to put on the stereo. He wants to listen to the Frozensoundtrack on repeat, but she insists…