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Simple rubber device mimics complex bird songs
For centuries, hunters have imitated their avian prey by whistling through their fingers or by carving wooden bird calls. Now a team of physicists at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has reproduced many of ...
Nov 21, 2010 |
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Disappearing vowels 'caught' on tape in US midwest
Try to pronounce the words "caught" and "cot." If you're a New Yorker by birth, the two words will sound as different as their spellings. But if you grew up in California, you probably pronounce them identically.
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Listening to the song of the toadfish (w/Audio)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Roger Bland is listening in on one of the noisier creatures in San Francisco Bay, using physics to analyze the mating song of the toadfish. While fish don't have vocal chords, they ...
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Catching electrons in the act: Science on the attosecond scale
(PhysOrg.com) -- Understanding how to create artificial photosynthesis, or tough, flexible high-temperature superconductors, or better solar cells, or a myriad other advances, will only be possible when we ...
Apr 16, 2010 |
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Ecologists sound out new solution for monitoring cryptic species
Ecologists have at last worked out a way of using recordings of birdsong to accurately measure the size of bird populations. This is the first time sound recordings from a microphone array have been translated into accurate ...
Nov 27, 2009 |
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Research on Bird Song Could Lead to a Refinement of a Darwinian Theory
For Williams College biology professor Heather Williams, the songs birds sing are more than a pleasant part of a spring day. They are a window into how communication works in the natural world. A birdsong is more than just ...
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Jan 30, 2009 |
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Birdsong not just for the birds
Switch on the mike, start the recording, the stage is set for the local fauna! Computer scientists from the University of Bonn, in conjunction with the birdsong archives of Berlin's Humboldt University, have developed a ...
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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Digital sound used for wolf roll call
Wildlife researchers plan to use a digital speaker-recorder system to count and keep track of wolves in Idaho.
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Mar 20, 2008 |
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Space scientists find that solar wind becomes music in the right hands
The music of composer and musician Roberto Morales-Manzanares has been inspired by the sea, by wind and wave, by mathematical equations, and now - thanks to his collaboration with space scientists at the University ...
Apr 21, 2006 |
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New way to study sleep is developed
Boston researchers report they've developed an inexpensive method to assess the stability and quality of sleep.
Aug 29, 2005 |
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Scientists unravel the secret world of elephant communication
It's a cloudless July afternoon in Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, and ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell is scanning the horizon for elephants. "It's so fantastic here," she says. "We're constantly ...
May 23, 2005 |
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Spacetime wave orbits black hole: beyond Einstein's general relativity
Astronomers from MIT and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have seen evidence of hot iron gas riding a ripple in spacetime around a black hole. This spacetime wave, if confirmed, would represent a ...
Jan 11, 2005 |
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