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Reverb: Why we dig messy sound

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Reverb: Why we dig messy sound

From concert-hall designers to pop record producers, everyone in the music industry knows we love reverb. But why, asks sound guru Trevor Cox

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2015 preview: First human trials to cure blindness

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Haptic holograms let you touch the void in VR

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Haptic holograms let you touch the void in VR

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People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour

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People taught synaesthesia learn to read in colour

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The man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks

Technology

The man who can hear Wi-Fi wherever he walks

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Blood odour chemical gets carnivores drooling

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Blood odour chemical gets carnivores drooling

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Cyborg cockroaches home in on sounds of distress

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Cyborg cockroaches home in on sounds of distress

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Food bland? Electric spoon zaps taste into every bite

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White noise for your nose cancels pungent aromas

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White noise for your nose cancels pungent aromas

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Shelf appeal: Making packaged food more alluring

Shelf appeal: Making packaged food more alluring

Coffee-scented packets, edible wrappers and biodegradable containers: it's up to inventive scientists to develop food packaging that is smart, clean and appealing to the senses

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Prosthetic hand recreates feeling of cotton bud touch

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Prosthetic hand recreates feeling of cotton bud touch

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A smell-defying mystery to savour

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Sense of proportion

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