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The Man Who Designed Ghost Armies and Opera Houses
The storied career of the centenarian and acoustician, Leo Beranek.
The Case For Leaving City Rats Alone
A Vancouver rat study is showing us how pest control can backfire.
Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts
We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.
Her Second Act: Fotini Markopoulou on Life Beyond Physics
It was time to work with her hands, not only her mind.
This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All
Why Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design.
These Clumps of Undigested Food Used to Be Medicinal Charms
Folks got it into their heads that bezoars were a powerful antidote against any poison.
Why the Songbird’s Serenade Is Going Off Key
Urban din is forcing animal mating calls to be either unsexy or unheard.
The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves
A relatively unknown experiment is already drawing conclusions from the sound of silence.