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AI noise-cancelling headphones let you focus on just one voice

You can blank out certain types of background noise and focus on just one conversation using prototype noise-cancelling headphones

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Underwater data centres could be destroyed by loud noises

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Environment

Climate change could make it harder to detect submarines

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Physics

‘Sound laser’ is the most powerful ever made

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Health

Zinc provides new clue for why loud noise causes hearing loss

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Physics

Human cells have a resonant frequency – and it’s just barely audible

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Humans

What makes the best sounding didgeridoo, according to science

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Technology

Corkscrew-shaped microbot could use sound to spiral through human body

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A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

Life

Crocodiles can sense how distressed human babies are from their cries

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Quantum computers could be built that are based on sound

Physics

Sound-based quantum computers could be built using chip-sized device

A chip-sized device can manipulate particles of sound in a way that mimics how particles of light are used in light-based quantum computers, opening the door for building sound-based quantum computers

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Mind

How your brain stays focused on conversations in a noisy room

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Sound vibrations can encode and process data like quantum computers do

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Mysterious sounds in stratosphere can't be traced to any known source

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Material that sends sound from water to air could help eavesdroppers

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