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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: sound

sound stories: 8 news summaries

Tiny Tubes May Trumpet End of Bulky Loudspeakers

Nanotube technology could allow for speakers on clothes, windows, screens

Nov 21, 08 3:36 PM CST
(Newser) - You may soon be able to add paper-thin speakers to that flat-panel TV, the Economist reports. Scientists have used ultra-tiny carbon nanotubes to make a transparent film that produces sound identical to a signal-carrying current that passes through it. If the technology can be made commercially viable, you might be... More »

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sound • nanotechnology • carbon nanotubes • stereo speakers • amplifiers

Fans Make Racket Over Too-Loud Music 

Arms-race mastering is losing musical detail, listeners and engineers complain

Sep 25, 08 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some fans have a surprising problem with Death Magnetic, the new Metallica album, the Wall Street Journal reports: It’s too loud. Since the advent of the compact disc, musicians have pushed mastering engineers to make albums as loud as possible. As a result, a new CD like Death Magnetic... More »

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music • sound • engineers • Metallica • heavy metal • production • Death Magnetic

 D'Oh!: 17 Sounds You Know

Trademarks, can you hear them now?

Aug 13, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Harley-Davidson's attempt to trademark its “Hog Call” V-twin engine sound stalled, but about 300 sounds have made the cut. Mental Floss sounds off on the 17 best-known:
  1. The first trademarked sound: NBC’s chimes, the notes G, E, C
  2. MGM’s lion’s roar
More »

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list • sound • trademarks • Patent and Trademark Office

 Earth Hits Cosmic Pitch 

Cacophonous radiation beamed from planet could easily be intercepted by aliens

Jul 1, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Earth’s atmosphere produces a natural sound and beams it off into the universe, Space.com reports. The sound—a painful series of chirps and whistles—is made by the collision of charged particles from the solar wind with Earth’s magnetic field. More »

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radio • space • Earth • sound • aliens • solar system • radiation • solar wind

 New Notes in Earth's Hum 

Scientists discover more complex oscillations in planetary symphony

Apr 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have discovered a new dimension to the sub-aural sound emanating from our planet’s crust, dubbed “Earth’s hum.” Researchers have known about the hum, detectable only by seismometers, for a decade, though its ultimate cause is unclear. They expected to find hidden oscillations, but the amplitude... More »

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science • Earth • sound • Earth's interior • scientific research

Earliest Recording of Sound Finally Played Back

1860 snippet, made before playback even imagined, 17 years ahead of Edison patent

Mar 27, 08 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thomas Edison and associates might've been first to hear recorded sound, but scientists have revealed they weren’t the first to create it, the New York Times reports. A 10-second recording of “Au Clair de la Lune” made in 1860—17 years before Edison patented the phonograph—has finally... More »

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sound • invention • Thomas Edison • Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • phonogram • Au Clair de la Lune • phonautograph • phonograph

Scientists Near Invisibility Cloak for Sound

Special material
makes acoustic
waves take a detour

Feb 16, 08 12:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Researchers are making progress on something that sounds right out of the pages of Harry Potter—a sort of invisibility cloak for sound. A team of scientists in Spain is trying to turn theory into reality by creating a cloak that causes sound waves to slip around an object, the ... More »

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science • sound • scientific discoveries • invisibility

Time For
Business to
Listen Up 

Tuning into sound yields surprising results in productivity and sales

Apr 27, 07 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Companies that aren't tuning in to the business implications of sound are missing a beat, the Economist writes. And there are a lot of them. Sound affects everything from office productivity (noisy open-floor plans diminish it) to how much customers buy (slow music makes people linger longer). More »

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sensory marketing • marketing • Intel • business • sound • sonic logo • soundscape • senses

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