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Symbolic Sound makes Kyma — a hardware & software environment for creative sound design, live performance, and scientific exploration.

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on 15 April 2026 at 01:29
Bumble bees learned to discriminate rhythmic patterns; generalized those patterns to slower & faster rates; and transferred learning of 2 vibrational patterns to their equivalent flashing light patterns. Suggests that bumble bees have truly flexible rhythm perception. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz2894
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on 17 February 2026 at 00:57
Researchers design a passive acoustic scattering structure that converts broadband white-noise into an acoustic rainbow — passively decomposing a radiated sound into its spatio-spectral components with “above unity” efficiency. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7497 @science.org https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads7497@science.org