The microphone is a pretty ubiquitous piece of technology that we’re all familiar with, but what if you’re not looking to record audio in the air, and instead want to listen in on what’s happening ...

Given how poorly light and radio signals are able to travel underwater, sound is still the best medium for wireless undersea communications. Conventional underwater microphones - or hydrophones - have ...

Researchers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory have developed a first-of-its-kind hydrophone built around a simple, commercially available microphone. The device, leveraging a common microfabrication process ...

How does a submarine talk to an airplane? It sounds like a bad joke but it’s actually a difficult engineering challenge. Traditionally the submarine must surface or get shallow enough to deploy a ...

Pando is the largest organism on Earth, consisting of about 40,000 genetically identical trees. Sound designer Jeff Rice recorded what this organism's vast root system sounds like in a rainstorm. The ...

A humpback whale using a bubble net to feed. A new hydrophone developed by a UC Davis physicist is enabling researchers to listen to the sound cues that the whales use to coordinate this feeding ...

La salle de musiques actuelles Hydrophone, à Lorient, aura bientôt une nouvelle directrice. Sarah Battegay a été ...

"We are able to flawlessly communicate and hear between the boats," said NIOT director Balaji Ramakrishnan, confirming the clarity achieved over long horizontal distances. "We wanted to understand the ...

Advances in ultrasound measurement techniques and hydrophone calibration are critical to both scientific research and clinical practice. Recent developments have focused on enhancing the precision of ...