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 ...

The smooth featureless walls around your home are easy to paint and great for hanging artwork, but they’re also very effective at transmitting soundwaves from room to room—a less desired feature.

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.