News articles tagged with 'vibration' (Page 3)
Researchers putting a freeze on oscillator vibrations
— 18 Jun 2009 13:03 | TechnologyUniversity of Oregon physicists have successfully landed a one-two punch on a tiny glass sphere, refrigerating it in liquid helium and then dosing its perimeter with a laser beam, to…
Splash, babble, sploosh: Computer algorithm simulates the sounds of water
— 4 Jun 2009 15:24 | TechnologyThose are some of the sounds that have been missing from computer graphic simulations of water and other fluids, according to researchers in Cornell's Department of Computer Science,…
Stanford researcher's discovery of ion channel turns ear on its head
— 24 Apr 2009 19:24 | HealthScientists thought they had a good model to explain how the inner ear translates vibrations in the air into sounds heard by the brain. Now, based on new research from the Stanford University…
Risk of vibration-induced vascular injuries linked to vibration frequency differences
— 19 Apr 2009 17:47 | HealthSpeaking on 19 April at the Experimental Biology 2009 meeting in New Orleans, Dr Kristine Krajnak, a team leader in the Engineering and Control Technologies Branch of the Health Effects…
Making a point: Picoscale stability in a room-temperature AFM
— 25 Mar 2009 14:26 | TechnologyForget dancing angels, a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado (CU) has shown how to detect and monitor the tiny…
IBM scientists track heat in tiny rolls of carbon atoms
— 2 Mar 2009 15:30 | TechnologyIBM Research scientists today announced a landmark study in the field of nanoelectronics; the development and demonstration of novel techniques to measure the distribution of energy…
MIT: Using touch to help deaf people
— 1 Mar 2009 14:40 | HealthLip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight…
When it comes to elephant love calls, the answer lies in a bone-shaking triangle
— 14 Feb 2009 09:10 | BiologyMany a love-besotted soul has declared they would move the world for their true love, but how many actually accomplish that task in their quest to unite with a lover?…
Argonne scientists prove unconventional superconductivity in new iron arsenide compounds
— 9 Jan 2009 15:12 | TechnologyScientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used inelastic neutron scattering to show that superconductivity in a new family of iron arsenide superconductors…
Florida's 'worm grunters' collect bait worms by inadvertently imitating mole sounds
— 14 Oct 2008 11:40 | BiologyWhen biologist Ken Catania heard about the peculiar practice of worm grunting practised in the Apalachicola National Forest in the Florida Panhandle one of his first thoughts was an…