Briefs
Short notes on the week in sound — the news, read for you.
The Barbican’s Feel the Sound opens in Tokyo on November 20
The immersive sound show from London runs at MoN Takanawa until March 22, with work by Ryuichi Sakamoto and Daito Manabe, Max Cooper and…
Hearing-loss patients in a Chinese hospital had worse blood fats
Among 580 ear patients in Luzhou, those admitted for inner-ear hearing loss had higher triglycerides and LDL and lower HDL than those admitted for…
Oulu Cathedral plays 4,000 fast radio bursts every day at noon
The Logos, built with an MIT astrophysicist, turns radio flashes caught by Canada’s CHIME telescope into an hour of sound through 12 speakers, through…
Mice picked out calls in noise better once they learned the noise
In a 10-mouse study at Radboud University, the longer a background hiss played before a call, the more often the animals caught it, and…
A review of 141 histotripsy studies tallies what has gone wrong
Serious complications turned up in about 6% of clinical liver treatments, and the authors say longer follow-up and open reporting have to catch up…
Traffic noise tracked with heart risk even in people who slept well
In records from 108,051 adults in a Boston hospital biobank, living with more than 50 dB of road, rail and air noise went with…
Two hearing aids beat one by about five points in a trial
In a 275-person randomized trial at Duke and Vanderbilt, people given two aids reported more benefit at three months, but one aid helped too…
A higher-pitched sound made moving a hand feel harder
In a virtual river heard through headphones, Tsukuba researchers made blindfolded people feel resistance with no physical force at all, only pitch and the…
Hong Kong will test sound-wave histotripsy on kidney tumors in 30 patients
The Li Ka Shing Foundation is paying for 30 trial places at three private hospitals, billed as Asia’s first kidney trials of the technique.
A chip reads each cell’s electrical signature, then sorts it with sound
Engineers in Singapore and Macau used a brief pulse of focused sound to push chosen cells aside, reaching 98% purity without any chemical labels.
Light-made ultrasound tracked blood pressure at the wrist in two volunteers
Technion engineers used laser pulses to make an artery send out ultrasound, then read its width with one tiny detector, within about 4 mmHg…
A magnolia compound shielded hearing in mice given cisplatin chemotherapy
Northwestern mice with breast tumors lost about 24 dB of high-pitch hearing on cisplatin alone and no significant amount when honokiol came first.