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Amherst College art professor and sound artist Dr. Brian House joins GBH’s All Things Considered to explore how his work reveals unheard soundscapes by studying the rhythms of human and nonhuman ...

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Acoustic metamaterials are a fast-evolving family of materials which manipulate sound waves in ever more advanced ways. Now, a team led by Changqing Xu at Nanjing Normal University in China has ...

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This is the fourth of a four-part series exploring how racial bias and prejudice continue to have a negative impact in America, despite Americans' widespread rejection of racist ideologies. It draws ...

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