The World Health Organization reports that 360 million people worldwide are affected by hearing loss, generally caused by disease, accidents or damage to middle-ear structures. Researchers at ...

Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. Tactile ...

A camera system can see sound vibrations with such precision and detail that it can reconstruct the music of a single instrument in a band or orchestra. Even the most high-powered and directed ...

Chethan is a reporter at Android Police, focusing on the weekend news coverage for the site. He has covered tech for over a decade with multiple publications, including the likes of Times Internet, ...

From meetings to movies, there are plenty of times when you need your iPhone to be quiet but still want to know when you're ...

Although the sensitivity and performance of microphones has improved quite a bit since Alexander Graham Bell first patented them, they still have one big drawback that researchers from Carnegie Mellon ...

Scientists holds solution in a Petri dish. Researchers from the Institute for Basic Science used Petri dishes of water on speakers to visualize the dissolution of atmospheric gasses at various ...

(CBS News) For our final lesson on a day focused on all things (kind of, sort of) educational, we have the latest from a man who has managed to make us ponder a few times in the past if there might be ...