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Energy From Sound Waves

By: Salar Nasimov, Journalist
Energy can be harnessed from many sources, including the sun, wind, and water. However, a lesser-known source of energy is sound waves.
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Shepard’s Tone

By: Jorge Laboy-Bulancea, Journalist
Shepard's Tone is an auditory phenomenon that has captivated both scientists and artists since its discovery by cognitive scientist Roger Shepard in the 1960s. It is an auditory illusion that creates the perception of a continuous ascent or descent in pitch, despite there being no actual change in pitch.
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White Noise: How It Helps Sleep

White Noise: How It Helps Sleep

By: Mina Woods-Corwin, Journalist
White noise is something our brain can focus on instead of getting distracted by random noises. Often, loud noises aren't what wake people up, but the change in sound.
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Audio Mixing

Audio Mixing

By: Skyla Tran, Journalist
To put it simply, audio mixing is creating an audio (or a lot of the time, music) by putting tracks of sounds together to create a single stereo track. But that's just a simple explanation.
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Noise Pollution

By: Evan Nanthavong, Journalist

As humans are going throughout their day they probably hear hundreds of different noises. Nowadays, we have machinery and devices that produce a large amount of sound. Have you ever wondered what harmful...

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