The Telegraph marvels at physicists learning how to levitate and move solid objects using sound waves:
… Read the rest “Sound levitation. No magnets. Sound.”They then levitate match heads, drops of water, screws and nuts.
The researchers
Science Daily sticks it to the people with an innate ear for what’s a C and what isn’t. Apparently, “perfect pitch” can be fooled:
… Read the rest “Perfect pitch isn’t.”Absolute pitch has been “idealized
Wired reveals the weird ways nanotechnologists are making sound behave like light… this time, by creating a Star Trek weapon in the lab:
… Read the rest “Lasers made of sound. Call them… phasers.”Because laser is an acronym for “light amplification
Nature explores the strange mathematics of yuck – the neurological reason why we find dissonant music hard to listen to:
… Read the rest “Why is dissonance noisy?”Consonant chords are, roughly speaking, made up of notes
I’m not sure when this happened, but NOAA thinks they’ve finally identified the mysterious underwater sound known as ‘The Bloop’:
… Read the rest “‘The Bloop’ identified.”The broad spectrum sounds
Fun to read Sound on Sound’s behind-the-mixing-board analysis of what made “Somebody That I Used To Know” so darn catchy – even though it breaks some Top-40 rules… Read the rest “The Neuroscience of Gotye.”
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk:
… Read the rest “The music of spider-silk strings.”Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical University
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray:
… Read the rest “Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!”Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Not new research, but I just learned that the lowest note in the Universe:
… Read the rest “Bb below the lowest C.”The black hole resides in the Perseus cluster of galaxies located 250 million light years from Earth. In 2002, astronomers
That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on your car stereo:
… Read the rest “Scientists and Manchester band create world’s most relaxing song.”Dr
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful:
… Read the rest “Noise hurts. Why?”As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America conference in San Diego, California, [Michael Oehler
SONG: “Evert 1 Pipkin”.
ARTIST: grant. Originally by Man or Astro-Man?
SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. It’s not from any specific scientific study… although… Read the rest “SONG: Evert 1 Pipkin (penitential Man or Astro-Man? cover)”
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University are using music (and audio engineering) to treat pain and depression – by mapping out emotional terrain in pop songs:
… Read the rest “Prescription pop.”Each volunteer
The BBC has a simulation of the sound of the Higgs boson.
That’s what the harmonics of the mass-bearing subatomic particle will sound like if one really does turn up at the Large Hadron… Read the rest “Song of the God Particle.”
Fixing the BBC’s headline here (and wife??) while celebrating a new, high frequency project by Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed, dog musicians:
… Read the rest “Anderson & Reed make dog music.”US rock star Lou Reed and his artist wife
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