Say it with your chest! Male gorillas beat their chests to show females how large and fearsome they are – with bigger apes producing lower frequency sounds that can be heard a MILE away, study reveals Researchers studied video and audio recordings of silverbacks in Rwanda Found bigger male mountain gorillas make a deeper sound than smaller animals … Read more
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s first 33-minute episode of their £30million podcast has ranked below deep sleep sounds of whale noises in the charts Prince Harry and Meghan’s first episode of their £30m podcast ranked lowly It came in at 17th place on the UK Spotify podcast chart, before moving to 7th Beating the Royals … Read more
Silent e-scooters will be fitted with fake noises to warn pedestrians they are coming. Experts will be setting up focus groups with local communities from next year to work out what noise will be most effective to warn pedestrians and other road users that the scooters are approaching. Trials are underway in towns and cities … Read more
Salmon farmers are ‘torturing’ porpoises and dolphins with high-pitched noises to protect their stock, campaigners warn Salmon farmers use underwater high-pitched noise devices to protect stock The devices are used to scare off seals that can each eat up to 15lb of fish a day But the underwater equipment has been branded ‘sonic torture’ by … Read more
Noise pollution can give you CANCER: Loud noises from roads and airports ‘can lead to DNA damage, high blood pressure and could cause tumours’, study on mice claims Mice were exposed to loud aircraft noises and their health was assessed Constant exposure to loud noises raised blood pressure of the mice In mice already with … Read more
Microsoft unveils a ‘real time noise suppression’ tool for conference calls to help people working from home filter out potentially embarrassing background noises Microsoft has demonstrated a new feature for its communications tool Teams Users on conference calls will now have the option to filter background noise The company demonstrated the feature by removing the … Read more