The latest research from the labs of Penn scientists Paulo Arratia and Douglas Jerolmack was an answer to “a call for help,” says Arratia. It was 2020, and the Philadelphia Orchestra, like so many cultural institutions, had suspended performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a new study, researchers explore the use of microplasma – a highly focused stream of chemically excited ions and molecules – as a noninvasive method for attacking the bacterial biofilms that resist antibiotic treatment in the middle ear.
Researchers reported that cognitively normal study participants who were taking at least one anticholinergic drug at baseline were 47% more likely to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI), often a precursor to dementia such as AD, while being tracked over a period of up to a decade compared to participants who did not take such drugs.
They are asking whether languages change so they are easier to produce, or whether they change in ways that make them easier for others to understand. Initial results challenge a long held notion that signs move toward the face in order to be easier to understand.
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The workshop utilized a sound stage that allowed the CSDR students to “feel” vibrations from rockets, stars, galaxies, supernovae, and even remnants of the Big Bang itself. The members of the team have made their materials public and written up their experiences to help teachers and other educators worldwide to similarly engage the deaf community in STEM activities.
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The human ear, like those of other mammals, is so extraordinarily sensitive that it can detect sound-wave-induced vibrations of the eardrum that move by less than the width of an atom. Now, researchers at MIT have discovered important new details of how the ear achieves this amazing ability to pick up faint sounds.
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Using augmented reality to make science, technology, engineering, and math content more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing learners in live presentation settings is the goal of a $258,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded to Rochester Institute of Technology’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf (RIT/NTID).
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Harvard University researchers have developed a new printing method that uses soundwaves to generate droplets from liquids with an unprecedented range of composition and viscosity. This technique could finally enable the manufacturing of many new biopharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and food and expand the possibilities of optical and conductive materials.
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The competition will showcase innovative ideas of deaf students from throughout the country centered around technological solutions that are science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) based.
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In the newly signed partnership, NewSound will reportedly manufacture the first audio wearable with Clementine Wear Inside—the SnowOwl—for Samplified’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
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The developer of Clementine Wear is Samplified Audio—an Ontario, Canada-based company—that was founded by hearing industry veterans Mario Augustyniak and Mark Kaal.
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IOTA-Soft—the company’s robotic-assisted insertion device—will reportedly allow surgeons to advance cochlear implant electrodes with the precision of robotics.
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The National Science Foundation seeks to alert research communities that this problem is an opportunity. The goal of this challenge is to develop algorithms or methods that could improve hearing in a noisy setting, NineSigma posted on their website.
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The NSF funded RIT/NTID with a $450K grant for a longitudinal study of vision in deaf children. The scientists will study how hearing levels and early-language experience influence deaf children’s visual skills.
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