Imagine you’re sitting in the fuselage of an A320, there are sounds of the engine rumbling and maybe some rain on the windows. Then you turn to look outside and see a giant speaker rotating around the ...

NASA's Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Lab is basically a graveyard for sound. Every surface inside is covered with 17,000 spiky wedges that absorb sound and prevent echoes. Nicknamed "The Dome", AAPL ...

As the modern automobile gets more and more advanced, engineers are increasingly paying attention to aspects of design traditionally left to, if not chance, then at least circumstance. One of those ...

Canada’s Simon Fraser University has built a cutting-edge acoustics lab with a 128-channel system. The new lab is devoted to “immersive communication” and spatial acoustics processing. Simon Fraser ...

The University of Oregon is one year away from the completion of the new Oregon Acoustic Research Lab, which tests for sound and impact transmission in mass-timber. The timber tested in the new lab, ...

The Acoustic Ecology Lab at ASU is using sounds to further progress in the understanding of climate change while also bettering people's quality of life. The lab was founded in 2015 by co-directors ...