My Amazon Author’s page Categories CategoriesSelect Categorya look back (875)a look back compilations (5)anniversaries (1)best of the year (2,312)best tweets (377)bilingual (37)blogs (673)book reviews (2)British Council (23)classroom practice (493)dictionaries (26)ed tech digest (336)Ed Week Teacher (1,946)ESL Carnival (46)ESL Web (718)geography (252)grammar (49)health (211)hot spot interviews (19)humor (2)infographic (105)infographics (134)instruction (406)Intermediate English (213)interviews (41)learning games (718)lessons (4)links I should posted (157)listening (174)math (148)monthly best lists (159)monthly updated lists (381)most popular posts (516)music and art (311)nytimes (71)photo galleries (50)pins of the week (220)podcast (305)popular site lists (100)Post Rank (38)quote (238)reading (817)research studies (983)school closures (759)school reform (2,530)science (1,141)search […]
Sound
The Speed of Sound Is Innately Encoded in The Brains of Bats, Scientists Discover
Bats surface to be born with some thing akin to a superpower: a preternaturally exact sense of time, new investigate implies. From their extremely 1st flight, these echolocating mammals look to someway know accurately how extensive it ordinarily normally takes for the sound waves of their phone calls to bounce […]
Can a newborn’s brain discriminate speech sounds? Decoding the spectral and temporal fine structure of sound — ScienceDaily
People’s skill to understand speech seems has been deeply studied, specifically in the course of someone’s to start with calendar year of existence, but what occurs through the very first hrs soon after beginning? Are infants born with innate capabilities to understand speech appears, or do neural encoding procedures want […]
Perseverance Mars Rover Records Sound of Rock-Zapping Laser
Our developing listing of sounds on Mars now includes lasers. NASA’s Perseverance rover has started working with its rock-zapping SuperCam instrument on the Red World, mission crew associates declared these days (March 10). SuperCam is equipped with a microphone, which has picked up the gentle whoosh of the Martian wind […]
Physicists Just Confirmed The Upper Limit For The Speed of Sound in The Universe
Einstein’s concept of distinctive relativity gave us the pace restrict of the Universe – that of light in a vacuum. But the complete major pace of audio, via any medium, has been considerably trickier to constrain. It is really impossible to measure the pace of audio in just about […]