News tagged with ultrasonic sound


Measuring sound with a nanoscopic air bubble

Measuring sound with a nanoscopic air bubble

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 04, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It will soon be possible to measure ultrasonic sound using water, air, light and nanotechnology – over a hundred times more accurately than with existing sensors.





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Ultrasonic frogs can tune their ears to different frequencies

Biology /

created Jul 22, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5

Researchers have discovered that a frog that lives near noisy springs in central China can tune its ears to different sound frequencies, much like the tuner on a radio can shift from one frequency to another. ...


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Female concave-eared frogs draw mates with ultrasonic calls

Biology /

created May 11, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Most female frogs don’t call; most lack or have only rudimentary vocal cords. A typical female selects a mate from a chorus of males and then –silently – signals her beau. But the female concave-eared torrent ...


Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs

Scientists discover ultrasonic communication among frogs

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCLA scientists report for the first time on the only known frog species that can communicate using purely ultrasonic calls, whose frequencies are too high to be heard by humans. Known as ...


I'm forever imploding bubbles

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed the first sensor capable of measuring localized ultrasonic cavitation - the implosion of bubbles in a liquid when a high frequency sound wave is applied. The sensor will ...


Detecting land mines with sound

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 23, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory are developing a highly pinpointed sound beam that can detect buried land mines from a safe distance. The new beam will use sound to seek out land mines like a bat uses sonar to hunt ...


Mystery of bat with an extraordinary nose solved

Mystery of bat with an extraordinary nose solved

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 6

A research paper co-written by a Virginia Tech faculty member explains a 60-year mystery behind a rare bat's nose that is unusually large for its species. The findings soon will be published in the scientific ...


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Rare Chinese frogs communicate by means of ultrasonic sound

Other Sciences /

created Mar 15, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 0

First came word that a rare frog (Amolops tormotus) in China sings like a bird, then that the species produces very high-pitch ultrasonic sounds. Now scientists say that these concave-eared torrent frogs also ...


Scientists discover exactly how bats fly

Other Sciences /

created Feb 07, 2006 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

University of Maryland scientists using infrared cameras and ultrasonic microphones have found exactly how a bat moves in response to sound.


New ultrasonic technology could help prevent train derailments

New ultrasonic technology could help prevent train derailments

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 22, 2006 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new technique they said is better able than currently used technology to find defects in steel railroad tracks, including hard-to-find ...


Researchers build an ultrasound version of the laser

Researchers build an ultrasound version of the laser

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 08, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (54) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Missouri at Rolla have built an ultrasound analogue of the laser.



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