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Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…
Recorded reef sound drew far more fish larvae in a Hawaiian bay
An underwater speaker in Kāneʻohe Bay pulled 4 to 14 times more young fish to artificial reef blocks, and coral larvae settled most on…
Hearing-aid users died less often in a 64,000-person, four-country study
Across Australia, Iceland, the US and Norway, people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 9 to 15% lower risk of death,…
Stanford physicists watched a single quantum of sound vanish
A chip-scale vibrating crystal held its motion for about 2 milliseconds, long enough for a qubit to catch it dropping from one energy step…
One missing gene cost female mice their hearing early, not males
Without the energy-transport gene Slc16a5, female mice lost high-frequency hearing by 6 weeks while males kept theirs at 12, a UT Dallas team reports.