Tag: Hearing
Nocturnal dinosaurs: Night vision and superb hearing in a small theropod...
Lars Schmitz, Scripps College; Jonah Choiniere, University of the Witwatersrand, and Roger Benson, University of Oxford
Today, barn owls,...
Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change
Garth Paine, Arizona State University
Our hearing tells us of a car approaching from behind, unseen, or a bird in a distant forest. Everything...
Yanny or Laurel? It’s your brain not your ears that decides
Jennell Vick, Case Western Reserve University
As a speech scientist, I never thought I’d see so much excitement on social media about one tiny little...
Your next hearing aid could be a video game
Dana Boebinger, Harvard University
Roughly 15 percent of Americans report some sort of hearing difficulty; trouble understanding conversations in noisy environments is one of the...
Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and...
Joan A. Casey, University of California, Berkeley; Peter James, Harvard Medical School , and Rachel Morello-Frosch, University of California, Berkeley
Most Americans think of cities...
Some nerves: How loud noise may change hearing
Matthew Xu-Friedman, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Our modern world is loud. Just sitting in a car, or an airplane, or...