Weisbrod-Zurrer silk weavers were then brought on board to manufacture various ... curtains in the reverberation room. The weighted sound absorption coefficient is between 0.5 and 0.6," said ...

There are two main ways to create more quiet at home: 1. adding surfaces that absorb the sound, or reverberation, before it gets to your ears, and 2. blocking it entirely. Blocking sound and ...

The researchers, which recently discovered that moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls, have been studying whether their structure could inform better performing sound ...

Remarkably, they found that moth wings proved to be excellent sound absorbers, even when on top of an acoustical solid substrate, with the wings absorbing as much as 87% of the incoming sound energy.