Popular Science - USA (2019-10)

photograph by The Voorhes 41 HIDDEN HEARING LOSS A 300-YEAR-OLD VIOLIN WILL PLAY FOREVER MESSAGES FROM OUTER SPACE UNSOLVED SONI ...

PG 42 POPSCI.COM · WINTER 2019 (before you can’t) by sarah scoles photo illustrations by anthony gerace now hear this ...

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Tucked inside the air traffic control tower in Portland, Maine, Samantha Bassett was busy making sure planes didn’t crash into e ...

PG 45 NOW HEAR THIS THAT WASN’T LOUD ENOUGH TO FRY AUDIO RECEPTORS IN THE EAR—BUT THAT COULD STILL THE BRAIN. “THAT W T AS TERRI ...

and the definition of hearing loss. In the traditional view, the or- gan simply grows less adept at detecting sound. When noise ...

normally,” Liberman says, “the audiogram can still be completely normal.” If you’ve lost that high a percentage of your ear-brai ...

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there’s more to the condition than shrinking synaptic power: In his view, it’s a symptom that can be caused by more than one pro ...

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BY ERIN BLAKEMORE JOAN WONG PAGE WINTER 2019 ILLUSTRATIONS BY POPULAR SCIENCE Seven sounds science has yet to solve 51 ...

WINTER 2019 • POPSCI.COM 52 no. 1 The Loneliest Whale When the U.S. Navy gave scientists access to a network of hydrophones buil ...

WHAT WAS THAT? 53 POPSCI.COM • WINTER 2019 The Seneca Guns Ghostly detonations have plagued residents near upstate New York’s Se ...

The Forest Grove Shriek A Portland suburb screamed its way into the league of mysterious noises in February 2016 with a loud mec ...

Singing Sand Go to the Gobi Desert in Asia or Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado, and you might just hear a spooky tune. ...

The masterpieces that Antonio Stradivari created three centuries ago will not live forever. One museum hopes digitizing their me ...

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takes a seat onstage in the concert hall of Museo del Violino in Cremona, Italy, and carefully tucks a Stradivarius under his ch ...

under Spanish, French, Austrian, and Italian rule. By the 17th century, the town was home to a thriv- ing community of instrumen ...

northern Italy’s Dolomite Alps was the beneficiary of an un- usual cool period in history. For 70 years, beginning in 1645, aver ...