Finding meaning in ‘Rick and Morty,’ one burp at a time
Acoustic analysis of belching during speech showcases the cartoon's rich array of nonword soundsCredit: Jessica Moore SAN DIEGO, December 5, ...
Tag: Chemistry/Physics/Materials Sciences
Can 3D-printing musical instruments produce better sound than traditional instruments?
Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden ...
Your food may help make stickier, safer glues for laptops, packaging, furniture
Credit: Gudrun Schmidt/Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - You cannot make glue out of a ham sandwich - but you ...
Researchers develop method to improve skeleton of common chemicals
Credit: Keiji Mori, TUAT Every chemical, from the simplest to the most complex, have a structural skeleton of atoms. The ...
Smart, self-powered patch to put an end to €2.3 trillion bill caused by rust worldwide
The cost of corrosion runs to 3-4% of the gross world product annually, and therefore there is increasing focus on ...
Non-adiabatic dynamics of strongly driven diffusive Josephson junctions
Credit: University of Jyväskylä/Pauli Virtanen Understanding how microwave absorption changes the transport properties of diffusive Josephson junctions is at the ...
WFIRM scientists push bioprinting capability forward
Two materials used at once better fabricate trachea constructsCredit: Credit: WFIRM WINSTON-SALEM, NC, -- Dec. 4, 2019 -- Wake Forest ...
Chip-based optical sensor detects cancer biomarker in urine
New technology lays groundwork for biosensors that improve disease diagnosis and monitoringCredit: Rick Seubers, Optical Sciences group, University of Twente ...
National Park Service scientists: Does aircraft noise make birds more vocal?
Human-generated noise can have an effect on birds, even when there's no direct threatCredit: National Park Service SAN DIEGO, December ...
Atom music lets listeners experience atomic world through sound
By correlating bright lines within the atomic spectra to audible tones, individual atom notes can be identified to create atom ...
EPA toxicologist and cell biology engineer win PETA Intl. Science Group Award
The PETA International Science Consortium will send Dr. Baylor Steele and Dr. Aline Chary to an Institute for In Vitro ...
ASA, CDC plan revamp of sound-related Wikipedia pages for International Year of Sound 2020
Acoustical Society of America, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health push to improve online resources for sound, acoustics and ...
Subsiding air parcels are among the causes of hot spells
KIT climatologists consider subsiding air masses from high altitude to be responsible for extreme hot spells rather than hot air ...
All-optical diffractive neural networks process broadband light
Credit: Ozcan Research Group, UCLA Diffractive deep neural network is an optical machine learning framework that blends deep learning with ...
Inside ITER — the giant fusion reactor
A new book provides a behind-the-scenes view into ITER -- the world's biggest fusion reactor, and discusses the challenges and ...
Bio-inspired hydrogel can rapidly switch to rigid plastic
Credit: Nonoyama T. et al., Advanced Materials, November 18, 2019 A new material that stiffens 1,800-fold when exposed to heat ...
New ‘hyper glue’ formula developed by UBCO and UVic researchers
Cross-linking technology tightly binds where commercial glues cannotCredit: UBC Okanagan With many of the products we use every day held ...
Freeze frame: Scientists capture atomic-scale snapshots of artificial proteins
Berkeley Lab scientists adapt microscopy technique to build and image peptoid nanosheets with unprecedented atomic precisionCredit: Berkeley Lab Protein-like molecules ...
Properties of graphene change due to water and oxygen
Credit: Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) We often find that food becomes rotten when we leave it outside ...
TAMEST names top rising STEM scientists of Texas in 2020 O’Donnell Award announcement
Changing the future of Alzheimer's Disease. Utilizing crystals to produce drugs for kidney stones and malaria. Understanding previously unobserved functions ...
