An artist’s imagining of a jet spewing from a black hole binary. Illustration: Aurore Simonnet and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Using a new tool they nicknamed the “Reverberation Machine,” ...

Listening in noisy spaces can be challenging for many of us, but a new study has found our brains are constantly learning to ...

Hearing researchers at Macquarie University have shown that listeners rapidly learn and adapt to the characteristics of acoustic spaces to improve their understanding of speech and have found evidence ...

Sound needs a medium (solid, liquid, or gas) to travel. Space is a vacuum, lacking the matter to carry sound waves. No sound in space means no echoes. While a near-perfect vacuum, some sounds can be ...

Macquarie University researchers showed how the brain learns to adapt to echoey environments, improving speech understanding ...

Millions of elusive black holes hide in plain sight across the Milky Way galaxy, only giving away their presence occasionally through bursts of X-ray light when they feed on stars. Astronomers have ...

Macquarie University hearing researchers have discovered how our brains learn to listen, and how this can help us understand speech in noisy, echo-filled spaces.