Annea Lockwood thinks of rivers as “live phenomena” that are constantly changing and shifting. She’s been drawn to the energy that rivers create, and the sound that energy makes, since she first ...

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PROVIDENCE — CEO Kim Gavin’s company, BLUEiQ, specializes in what’s called underwater sensing, using sound to study marine life, map the sea floor, or identify underwater objects or vehicles. Gavin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coral reefs are alive with sound, and new 360° recording technology reveals the hidden voices of fish and shrimp, offering a ...

If you know that a well-known brand of smoke alarm sounds identical to a rare parrot, you may well be a fan of Chris Mitchell, CEO of Audio Analytic. His Cambridge-based company augments consumer ...

Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical ...

“Humans are a really, really noisy bunch and we’re getting louder all the time,” says composer Stuart Fowkes, creator of the “global collaborative sound project” Cities and Memory. The Verge spoke ...

Researchers have created the first 3D map of the hearing nerve showing where the various sound frequencies are captured. Using what is known as synchrotron X-ray imaging, they were able to trace the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To navigate, echolocating bats use a local and directed beam of sound. However, this echolocation is short-ranged and highly ...