News tagged with noise
What you see affects what you hear (Videos)
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Understanding what a friend is saying in the hubbub of a noisy party can present a challenge - unless you can see the friend's face.
Our Health: Louder and louder world harms our hearing
Feb 27, 2009 |
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So much noise. Rock concerts. Traffic. IPods. Always something in your ear. Until nature demands silence.
IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz solutions in digital 45nm CMOS
Feb 09, 2009 |
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At this week’s International Solid State Circuits Conference, IMEC presents a 60GHz front-end receive chain, phase-locked loop and power amplifier in 45nm digital CMOS technology. These building blocks pave ...
Researchers could herald a new era in fundamental physics
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Cardiff University researchers who are part of a British-German team searching the depths of space to study gravitational waves, may have stumbled on one of the most important discoveries in physics according to an American ...
Physicists Show that Correlated Environmental Variations Can Quicken Extinctions
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In general, population extinction is a natural process. For one reason or another, an estimated 99.9% of all species that have lived on Earth are now extinct. However, the reasons for a species ...
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...
A computer can pick out speech even amid cacophony
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 26, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a recent development in speech recognition, it is possible to search through television news programmes provided the recognition system has been trained beforehand. PhD candidate Marijn ...
New study shows bird population estimates are flawed
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Nov 21, 2008 |
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Most of what we know about bird populations stems from surveys conducted by professional biologists and amateur birdwatchers, but new research from North Carolina State University shows that the data from those surveys may ...
First Tunable, ‘Noiseless’ Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable “noiseless” ...
'Anti-noise' silences wind turbines
Aug 11, 2008 |
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If wind energy converters are located anywhere near a residential area, they must never become too noisy even in high winds. Most such power units try to go easy on their neighbors' ears, but even the most ...
Brain noise is a good thing
Biology /
Jul 04, 2008 |
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Canadian scientists have shown that a noisy brain is a healthy brain.
