Biologist Jeff Podos at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Mario Cohn-Haft at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil, report that they have recorded the loudest bird calls ever documented, made ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2019
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U.S. national parks are full of natural sounds. In Rocky Mountain National Park, visitors might hear the bugle of elks. At Yellowstone National Park, wolves howl in the distance. Iconic sounds like these are often associated ...
Environment
Oct 2, 2019
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When you think about somewhere that is tranquil, what do you imagine? Whether it's a wide open meadow, a deserted beach, or a river as it lazily flows along on a warm summer's afternoon, research shows tranquillity is mainly ...
Environment
Aug 18, 2017
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The Obama administration on Friday rejected requests by energy companies to conduct seismic surveys in the Atlantic Ocean to map potential drilling sites for oil and natural gas.
Environment
Jan 6, 2017
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In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images: Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos posted to Facebook.
Computer Sciences
Dec 1, 2016
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NIST scientists have developed a novel method to rapidly and accurately calibrate gas flow meters, such as those used to measure natural gas flowing in pipelines, by applying a fundamental physical principle: When a sound ...
Engineering
Jan 26, 2015
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Researchers from the University of Southampton today released a smartphone app designed to help in the search for a rare insect found only in the New Forest National Park.
Plants & Animals
Jun 3, 2013
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(Phys.org)—After 12 years of work, Cornell's Macaulay Library archive, the largest collection of wildlife sounds in the world, is now digitized and fully available online.
Plants & Animals
Jan 18, 2013
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In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter.
Space Exploration
Apr 2, 2012
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This April, when you step outside and hear the first sounds of spring, you won't be hearing just songbirds and buzzing insects, but aural evidence of an awakening ecosystem.
Ecology
Mar 11, 2011
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