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HearO apps to detect heart attacks using voice analysis. PR photo

82 percent success for the Israeli HearO system in early detection of heart failure using sound samples

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In an experiment conducted by the start-up Cordio Medical among 180 patients in ten medical centers in Israel, the system identified heart failure events an average of 18 days before they occurred. The subjects sent one voice sample per day via smartphone, in Hebrew, Russian or Arabic. A total of 460 samples were collected
"Instead of the action of compression and expansion being performed by a moving mechanical component, such as a piston or turbine, we use a sound wave"/ illustration: pixabay.

Quiet engines

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Damage from the earthquake and tsunami in Sendai, Japan, 2011. Photo: US Navy.

Hear a tsunami in the distance

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Wireless charging. Illustration: shutterstock

Wireless charging using sound waves

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A blind boy from California navigates his way through the world using sonar and his ears. Screenshot from YouTube

The boy who saw without eyes

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sound waves. Illustration: shutterstock

A one-way road to sounds / Charles K. Choi

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sound waves. Illustration: shutterstock

A Ben-Gurion graduate who is on post at MIT has discovered a new way to affect wave propagation

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Early detection of Parkinson's using sound waves

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Research in bats reveals the most effective method for locating a moving target

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