Science news articles about 'acoustic signals'

  • Listening to dark matter

    ... , neutron induced recoil nuclei. To their surprise they found a significant difference in amplitudes of the acoustic signals, which has never been observed before. As experiment spokesperson Viktor ...
  • MIT: Using touch to help deaf people

    ... been in use for decades, but the MIT team hopes to improve the devices by refining the acoustic signal processing systems to provide tactile cues that are tailored to boost lip-reading performance, ...
  • Researchers develop flow sensors based on hair structures of blind cavefish

    ... better than active sonar, which requires a lot of space, sends out strong acoustic signals that can have a detrimental effect on the environment, and is inappropriate for stealth applications." In a ...
  • Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

    ... says. "However, the nodes are continuously exchanging the times and angles of arrival for these acoustic signals, along with their own locations and orientations. When two or more nodes detect the ...
  • I'm forever imploding bubbles

    ... ' caused by bubble implosion. NPL's new sensor takes a different approach by monitoring the acoustic signals generated when the bubbles implode. It listens to the bubbles as they collapse and uses the ...
  • Thieving whale caught on video gives rare clues about hunting strategy, sound production

    ... ." The Alaska video allowed Mathias and Thode to not only match the size of the whale's head with its acoustic signal, but permitted them to infer the size of its spermaceti organ, which produces a ...
  • Spanish scientists develop echo-location in humans

    ... Henares (UAH) has shown scientifically that human beings can develop echolocation, the system of acoustic signals used by dolphins and bats to explore their surroundings. Producing certain kinds of ...
  • Lasers generate underwater sound

    ... either an underwater or airborne platform can be used for remote acoustic generation. Since GVD and NSF effects ... where airborne lasers produce underwater acoustic signals without any required hardware ...

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