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Superfast muscles in songbirds

Superfast muscles in songbirds

Biology /

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Certain songbirds can contract their vocal muscles 100 times faster than humans can blink an eye – placing the birds with a handful of animals that have evolved superfast muscles, University of Utah researchers ...





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Corticosteroid injections may be helpful to manage vocal fold polyps without surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Corticosteroid injections appear to offer an alternative to surgery for treating polyps on the vocal cords, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery.


Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...


A mechanical model of vocalization

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

When people speak, sing, or shout, they produce sound by pushing air over their vocal folds -- bits of muscle and tissue that manipulate the air flow and vibrate within it. When someone has polyps or some other problem with ...


Showing the Mechanics of Making Music

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 03, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Why do some people sound good enough to compete on American Idol while others can't carry a tune? With a lab full of tubes, wires and computers, Nandhu Radhakrishnan uses speech pathology to help others become better actors ...


Eye muscles -- those go-getters of the anatomical world

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 01, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The eye, often called the window to the soul, may become a window to the mysteries of muscular dystrophy, a debilitating muscle disease that often leads to death in early adulthood.


Researchers study acoustic communication in deep-sea fish

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created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An international research team studying sound production in deep-sea fishes has found that cusk-eels use several sets of muscles to produce sound that plays a prominent role in male mating calls.


Christmas Carol Talk

Other Sciences / Other

created 11 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Even without the lyrics, the tunes of some Christmas carols -- such as "Jingle Bells" or "Deck the Halls" -- sound uplifting. But the melodies of other songs like "We Three Kings" have a different, somber sound.


Syntax in our primate cousins

Syntax in our primate cousins

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study carried out in Ivory Coast has shown that monkeys of a certain forest-dwelling species called Campbell's monkeys emit six types of alert calls. The primates combine these calls into ...


Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

A new genetic tool will enable scientists to study vocal learning and neurogenesis at the molecular level in songbirds.


National guideline released for the treatment of hoarseness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation (AAO-HNSF) will issue the first--and only--national clinical practice guideline to help healthcare practitioners identify and manage patients with ...



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