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  1. Math

    Canary Songs

    All it takes to sing like a canary is good breath and muscle control. Simply by manipulating air pressure and muscle tension in its vocal organ, or syrinx, a canary can generate an amazingly varied repertoire of trills, warbles, and other melodic syllables. This insight comes from a novel mathematical model of sound production in […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  2. Math

    Canary Songs

    All it takes to sing like a canary is good breath and muscle control. Simply by manipulating air pressure and muscle tension in its vocal organ, or syrinx, a canary can generate an amazingly varied repertoire of trills, warbles, and other melodic syllables. This insight comes from a novel mathematical model of sound production in […]

    By Ivars Peterson
  3. Health & Medicine

    Things Just Mesh

    Researching are studying ways to make stents, which prop open arteries, even better at keeping these channels open.