Scientists tracked whale movements and songs over several years, and found that whales switch from singing at night to caroling during the daytime when they begin migrating. Tracking the transition between the two song styles may help us protect these endangered animals as they move towards busy shipping lanes.
Clamor comes in many packages, from abstract waveforms to countless spoken words in thousands of languages to mathematically complex values like the decibel. With such cryptic disguises, it’s no surprise that noise plays tricks on us. Reveal the truth with this trio of matching games.
As teams mount their summer comebacks in empty arenas and stadiums, some leagues have found alternative ways to keep viewers from suffering awkward silences during the action.
Google and Microsoft are working on methods to quiet down annoying background sounds in your conference calls.
As COVID-19 has spread throughout the world, some tech companies have proven themselves willing to help those of us doing our civic duty by staying home. Simply put, these developers have made certain products free on a temporary basis or for an extended period of time, giving us the ability to try out a whole host of products and services.
People have limited mental resources from which both music and tasks can draw.
Imagine sitting down to a meal of ground-up bone, served on a plate made of burned bones, while two musicians—one rattling two sawed-off ribs together and the other ominously shaking part of a horse’s skull—provide grim ambience in the dim candlelight. Off in the corner, an oracle shoves some bones into a fire in an effort to predict whether the crops you just fertilized with shattered bones will yield a hearty harvest.
The Shepard scale, a set of tones each separated by an octave, when played continuously, make the sounds seem as if they are rising or dropping endlessly.
Shrek Chalasani dipped a touch-me-not plant in ultrasound jelly and placed it on a probe. You’ll never guess what happened next.
Many people who are blind use echolocation to move around the world unassisted. I’m one of them.
