Tobacco hornworm caterpillars have no organs that resemble ears. Yet, scientists were able to figure out how they hear—and it could inspire next generation microphones. To understand hearing in the ...

The saliva circulating in your mouth contains troves of microbial information about the rest of your body and is easier to collect than blood samples. Today, a few drops of spit can help detect ...

A research team at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has developed technology using advanced machine learning techniques that detects signs of gender violence from paralinguistic characteristics ...

If seeing is believing, then hearing is feeling. And yet sound remains one of the hardest elements of filmmaking to judge during awards season. In 2021, the Academy merged its Sound Editing and Sound ...

A new light-based sensor can spot incredibly tiny amounts of cancer biomarkers in blood, raising the possibility of earlier and simpler cancer detection. The technology merges DNA nanotechnology, ...

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*** new data security report reveals hackers are getting smarter. It says the number of victim notices dropped sharply in the past year, from 1.36 billion in 2024 to about 279 million in 2025. But ...

Researchers have developed a hair-thin microphone made entirely of silica fiber that can detect a large range of ultrasound and withstand temperatures up to 1,000 °C. It features a vibration-sensitive ...