Sound permeates the human experience and gets our attention, sometimes traumatically so. Consider the car horn. It is a widespread practical application of this noise-trauma-alert principle -- and an ...

A new device, sounding a little like a synthesised duck, was developed to get attention in a less stressful way than the traditional angry honk. Photo / AP A quacking car horn designed to alert people ...

It’s not just ex-NASA engineers who are trying to develop easier-on-the-ear car horns. Researchers in South Korea, too, have been working on creating the ideal honking sound that isn’t as grating as ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25, 2017 -- Sound permeates the human experience -- we are exposed to sounds from birth to death, and the human auditory system can distinguish and classify about 400,000 ...

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I have heard the real klaxon sound and once heard it is a sound that will haunt you for the rest of your life. The ghost of the klaxon ...

Washington D.C. [USA], Jun 26 (ANI): A team of researchers has come up with a car horn that alerts people to danger while reducing the cacophony on city streets. The study, led by Myungjin Bae of ...

Tom Tivnan is the managing editor of The Bookseller. Sound the trumpets, folks, ring the bells and most importantly crank up that old-fashioned noisemaker that goes “a-rooo-gha” for Danger Sound ...

Sound experts have come up with a car horn that sounds like a duck to reduce noise on city streets. A quacking car horn designed to alert people to danger while reducing the cacophony of noise on city ...

Just as we started getting that horrible vuvuzela drone out of our minds, an unusual klaxon type noise was heard at the weekend's Premier League clash between Man City and Arsenal. Listen to the ...

Researchers working in the Amazon recently recorded the world’s loudest bird, the white bellbird, and it sounds like a klaxon you’d hear aboard a spaceship during battle. And while the white ...

Researchers are tackling sound pollution from loud car horns by developing a beep which apparently sounds like a duck's quack. The pleasant-sounding horn is designed to alert people to danger while ...