{"id":17337,"date":"2015-09-16T01:47:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-have-created-a-system-that-absorbs-99-7-of-all-sound"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:40:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:40:31","slug":"scientists-have-created-a-system-that-absorbs-99-7-of-all-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/scientists-have-created-a-system-that-absorbs-99-7-of-all-sound","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created a System That Absorbs 99.7% of All Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Is this thing on? That\u2019s likely what Hong Kong University of Science and Technology scientists thought, shortly after they\u2019d developed a new system that absorbs 99.7 percent of all the sound that hits it.<\/p>\n<p>Many systems use sonic insulators to deaden sound: materials which absorb sound, typically over a small range of frequencies. By combining different insulators into a composite, it\u2019s possible to absorb a large range of sounds \u2014 but it\u2019s difficult to create such a material that absorbs all the the frequencies. It would just be too big and complex. That means that there\u2019s a limit to the amount of sound they can absorb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-have-created-a-system-that-absorbs-99-7-of-1730725855?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this thing on? That\u2019s likely what Hong Kong University of Science and Technology scientists thought, shortly after they\u2019d developed a new system that absorbs 99.7 percent of all the sound that hits it. Many systems use sonic insulators to deaden sound: materials which absorb sound, typically over a small range of frequencies. By combining [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64207,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17337\/revisions\/64207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}