Popular Science US - Winter 2019

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What it’s like to sing on
another planet.

A trio of click-clacking
keyboards.

Notes can send chills
down your spine.

The audio tricks our
minds play on us.

What It's Like To Sing On Another Planet

Acousticians sometimes speculate about how conversations might carry on alien worlds. Of course, you’d have no time to chat if you stood in the open air on Mars: Your blood would boil you to death in seconds. But what about those final screams?

1 min

How Birds Got Their Groove

NATURE PUTS EVERY CHIRP in its proper place. Avian sounds— flutish trills, alarmlike buzzes, and one-note squawks alike— are immediately absorbed, reflected, and scattered by everything in a bird’s habitat.

2 mins

Seven Sounds Science Has Yet To Solve!

Seven sounds science has yet to solve

4 mins

The Song Of The Immortal Violin

The masterpieces that Antonio Stradivari created three centuries ago will not live forever. One museum hopes digitizing their melodious voice will save them for future generations.

10 mins

Papa, Can You Hear Me?

Most of us can’t ignore a baby’s cry.

2 mins

Static On The Line

When our farthest-out craft call home, space itself sends a message.

10+ mins

Comal, a bustling,

Oaxacan-inspired restaurant in Berkeley, California, has all the ingredients for the kind of ear-splitting ambience that’s become familiar in modern eateries: packed bar, open kitchen, high ceilings, and concrete walls. But when I join a dinner there one spring evening, it’s easy to jump into the margarita-fueled conversation and order up plates of grilled corn, carne asada tacos, and rotisserie chicken with mole.

10+ mins

I Wish Someone Would Invent...

Noise-selecting earbuds

1 min

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