Popular Science - USA (2019-10)

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contained everything from eggs and animal pro- tein to myrrh and amber. But an analysis of five Stradivarius creations by French ...

instruments sounded better than modern ones,” he says. That prompted Curtin and Claudia Fritz, who studies psy- cho acoustics at ...

PA PA , CAN YOU HEAR ME? MOST OF US CAN’T IGNORE A BABY’S CRY. We can choose not to respond, but those shat- tering notes will i ...

5 Starting to Lose It Instructions from the vagus nerve cause the muscles in the larynx to tighten, which prevents the vocal fol ...

when our farthest-out craft call home, space itself sends a message ...

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Twenty-some hours later, after an epic inter- stellar journey, this rippling wave will reach Earth. By the time the ping gets he ...

signals pick up as they ripple past planets, moons, and asteroids provides a window onto our cosmic neighborhood. In some instan ...

38,000-mile-per-hour flight farther into deep space, an acoustic phenomenon known as the Doppler effect slightly stretches its s ...

VOYAGER MISSION CONTROL SITS a couple of miles outside the JPL campus, in a cinder-block building with no signs and high windows ...

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Despite the clinking cutlery and up-tempo Latin rock music, nobody strains to hear the waitress when she points out the chipotle ...

THE SPRAWLING CORPORATE CAMPUS OF MEYER SOUND WAS once a ketchup factory in the Berkeley flatlands. Inside a square block of low ...

ceilings, bare floors, and walls and furniture made of hard, sound-reflective materials like concrete, tile, metal, plaster, and ...

mix of after-work gossip, clinking silverware and glasses, the guffaws of a raucous party nearby. The sig- nal processor dampens ...

ASMR videos give fans an almost-orgasmic release—but send others into a rage. That overlap could unlock the secret of how sound ...

YOUTUBE IS A GARDEN OF DIGITALDELIGHTS: Celebrities invite you into their homes, algorithms serve up your favorite music, and st ...

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