News tagged with tuning
How hummingbirds produce fluttering sounds during courtship
Though famous for their mid-air hovering during hunting, tiny hummingbirds have another trait that is literally telltale: males of some hummingbird species generate loud sounds with their tail feathers while ...
Sep 08, 2011 |
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Robots learn to handle objects, understand places
(PhysOrg.com) -- Infants spend their first few months learning to find their way around and manipulating objects, and they are very flexible about it: Cups can come in different shapes and sizes, but they ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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UMaine assists podiatrist with electronic tuning fork invention
An Orono podiatrist is on the cusp of a technological breakthrough with a new medical instrument — an electronic tuning fork — that he’s developing with assistance from students and staff at the University ...
Aug 02, 2011 |
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The use of a different resonance in atomic force microscopy enhances resolution
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a highly sensitive form of microscopy that makes it possible to map a surface with near-atomic resolution. Shaw Wei Kok and colleagues from A*STAR’s Singapore Institute ...
Apr 14, 2011 |
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While shepherds watched their flocks on 'Ilkely Moor'
'While shepherds watched' was the first carol to cross over to the Church of England from the secular, folk tradition and carol singers might be surprised to hear that it used to be commonly sung to the tune 'Cranbrook', ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Scientists directly measure charge states of atoms using an atomic force microscope
(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge state of ...
Jun 23, 2009 |
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Bird songs change with environment
Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.
May 20, 2009 |
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