In an acoustically-harsh room your $1500 speakers can sound no better than the $50 speakers inside your TV. Sound Absorption panels reduce reverberation and eliminate sound reflections and echoes that ...

As pandemic restrictions lift and workers return to the office, many are quickly being reminded of one big downside to many open office environments: the noise. Office noise like typing and chewing ...

Hard surfaces and high ceilings are major contributing factors to noisy, echoing spaces. Inhabitat met Kirei founder John Stein at his Greenbuild booth where he explained that designers should ideally ...

If you live near a busy street, this new breakthrough from Switzerland could offer some long-awaited relief. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) ...

Experts at the University of Bristol have discovered that the scales on moth wings act as excellent sound absorbers even when placed on an artificial surface. The researchers, which recently ...

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Researchers describe an acoustic meta-surface that uses pingpong balls, with small holes punctured in each, as Helmholtz resonators to create inexpensive but effective low-frequency sound insulation.