News articles tagged with 'noise'
Babies born earlier in areas near busy road junctions
— 4 Apr 2011 18:24 | HealthBabies are born earlier when their mothers live near a concentration of freeways and main roads, a study of 970 mothers and their newborn babies in Logan City, south of Brisbane, has…
Noise distracts fish from their dinner
— 1 Mar 2011 18:27 | BiologyUsing underwater speakers to play noise at levels similar to those produced by recreational speedboats, the researchers found that three-spined sticklebacks exposed to even brief noise…
2 drugs protect hearing better than 1
— 24 Feb 2011 19:17 | HealthWhether on a battlefield, in a factory or at a rock concert, noise-induced hearing loss is one of the most common hazards people face…
Rowdy residents warn crustaceans away from perilous reefs
— 8 Feb 2011 17:42 | EnvironmentIn the first study to examine the response to noise of a diverse range of crustaceans, an international team led by the University of Bristol found that many families of crustaceans…
Bad things seem even worse if people have to live through them again
— 8 Feb 2011 16:21 | HealthWhen people think unpleasant events are over, they remember them as being less painful or annoying than when they expect them to happen again, pointing to the power of expectation to…
Songbird's strategy for changing its tune could inform rehab efforts
— 1 Feb 2011 20:21 | BiologyIt takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions - a choreography of many muscle movements - to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have…
Storms, soccer matches hidden in seismometer noise
— 18 Jan 2011 16:54 | Geology and palaeontologyIf you wander up to a seismograph in a museum, unless you are lucky enough to be there right during an earthquake, all you will see is a small wiggly signal being recorded…
The sound of the underground! New acoustic early warning system for landslide prediction
— 22 Oct 2010 20:13 | Geology and palaeontologyA new type of sound sensor system has been developed to predict the likelihood of a landslide…
Surfing for earthquakes
— 22 Oct 2010 18:52 | Geology and palaeontologyA better understanding of the ground beneath our feet will result from research by seismologists and Rapid - a group of computer scientists at the University of Edinburgh. The Earth's…
Persistently noisy workplace more than doubles heart disease risk
— 6 Oct 2010 05:29 | HealthA persistently noisy workplace more than doubles an employee's risk of serious heart disease, suggests research published online in Occupational and Environmental Medicine…