Imagine you’re sitting in the fuselage of an A320, there are sounds of the engine rumbling and maybe some rain on the windows. Then you turn to look outside and see a giant speaker rotating around the ...

As the modern automobile gets more and more advanced, engineers are increasingly paying attention to aspects of design traditionally left to, if not chance, then at least circumstance. One of those ...

NASA's Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Lab is basically a graveyard for sound. Every surface inside is covered with 17,000 spiky wedges that absorb sound and prevent echoes. Nicknamed "The Dome", AAPL ...

The University of Oregon is one year away from the completion of the new Oregon Acoustic Research Lab, which tests for sound and impact transmission in mass-timber. The timber tested in the new lab, ...

As an acoustician with the Helsinki-based consultancy Akukon, I design and test the sound characteristics of various spaces, from performance venues to research laboratories. This year, I was part of ...