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Wake Up Tomorrow Morning With an Earful of Coffee
Sunday night is this kind of melancholy time, where you’re still free, but know you can’t do anything too fun cos you have to go back to work. But Monday morning doesn’t have to be so grim: piping hot...
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A Melodious Mashup of Nearly Every Chime and Bleep in Tech History
Close your eyes at any given moment, and you’re likely to hear an audio artifact or two — whether the boo-dah-ling of a text message or the clacking of a keyboard. But as this new sound collage reminds...
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Little Robots Turn Marker Squiggles Into Sound
All the little droids zipping around the Star Wars universe seemed sort of frantically aimless. Where were they going? These little robots look similar but their mission is clear. Follow the black...
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Yeah, What’s The Deal With Clapping?
Sometimes I have an out of body moment where I see myself as an audience member and think about how dumb-looking the whole process is. You sit somewhere. You gape at something and don’t monitor your...
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Incredible Disney Microphone Transmit Sounds Through Your Fingertips
When it comes to secrets, whispering just got outdated. Disney Research has come up with a microphone, straight out of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that doesn’t actually amplify your...
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Why Does Your Voice Sound Different When It’s Recorded?
If you’ve ever listened to a recording of yourself and thought you sound completely different, you’re not alone. But more than that, you were also correct. Here’s why it sounds different. You see, when...
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Your Parents Are Right: Music Really Has Gotten Louder
You know how your mum or granny or whoever is always complaining about how “kids these days” listen to louder music than when she was young? Turns out, she was scientifically correct. Echo Nest, a...
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We’ve Finally Figured Out Why Kettles Whistle
This might shock you, but for over a century scientists have been pondering why kettles whistle—and completely failed to find an answer. That’s all changed now, though, thanks to two scientists from...
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A Tiny Matchbook-Sized USB DAC Will Make Your Headphones Sound Sublime
If you’ve dropped a small fortune on a nice pair of over-the-ear headphones but are just connecting them to your laptop’s built-in headphone jack, you’re probably not hearing everything you paid for....
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The World’s Most Obscene iPhone Dock Is Bigger Than a Pony
With 28 speakers blasting around 125 watts, the original Wall of Sound made for an obnoxious home stereo system—let alone an iPod dock. But its creators have returned with a bigger and better solution:...
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Watch: The World Trade Center Wails in Strong Winds
New Yorkers who live near One World Trade Center already have to contend with “fortress-like isolation” caused by the imposing NYPD security perimeter. But according to neighbourhood residents, there’s...
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These Just Might be the Goofiest Lo-Fi Headphones You’ll Ever Hear
Strapping on a pair of oversized headphones is a great way to shut out the world. But what if the beat was coming from outside the earpads?? For his latest trick, prolific sonic experimentalist Zimoun...
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How an Underwater Bomb in Australia Was Heard Around the World
In 1960, scientists did one of those experiments that just aren’t allowed anymore. For the sake of science, they blew up three 300-lb anti-submarine bombs off the coast of Australia. A listening...
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Why the Epidaurus Theatre Has Such Amazing Acoustics
Epidaurus, Greece, was a small, unassuming city in ancient times, best known for being the supposed birth place of Apollo’s son, Asklepios the healer. As Asklepios’ following grew, so too did the town....
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This is a Picture of the Sound a Helicopter Makes
This might look like the cut-stick project of a small child, but in fact this image visualises the noise that a helicopter makes as it tears through the air. Really. Yes, that sounds a little crazy,...
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Eavesdropping on the Secret Sounds of Trees
What if we could identify plants not by sight but by sound? It’s not entirely fanciful: every plant makes a unique set of sounds—an auditory signature, if you will—influenced by its physiology. But...
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This Insanely-Loud Sound System Simulates the Roar of a Rocket Launch
Being shot into space puts spacecraft under extreme stress—but did you know that the sound of the rocket launch can damage a craft? Inside the Large European Acoustic Facility, engineers recreate the...
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Berlin’s BoomRoom Plays Sounds Only You Can Hear (and Touch)
You know how some big rooms have special spots where you can stand and hear someone whisper from a hundred feet away. What if speakers could do that, selectively slinging sounds to specific listeners...
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Listen to the Purring, Electromagnetic Weirdness of Mushrooms
I was blown away when I first heard about a project that tried to tap into the electromagnetic communication potential of mushrooms. Using wires, radio waves, and circuits—not psychedelics—the...
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Listen to the Sound of Atoms Bonding
You’d be forgiven for thinking that a large tuning fork, a nail, some Blu-Tack and a guitar amp sounded more like the contents of a DIY music studio than a science lab. But they are, in fact, all the...
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