Science This article is more than 20 years oldAcoustics professor proves ducks do echoThis article is more than 20 years oldScientists have solved one of the acoustic world's riddles. It is a myth, they will announce today, that a duck's quack has no echo.
But they will also add, a trifle sheepishly, that the echo of a duck's quack is very difficult to hear.
Trevor Cox, of the acoustics research centre at the University of Salford, is an expert in techniques used to diffuse echoes. Read More...
FilmObituaryElsa Martinelli obituaryVersatile star of Hollywood’s international years whose work spanned romantic comedies, period epics and spaghetti westernsFor more than a decade from the mid-1950s, the film star Elsa Martinelli, who has died aged 82, was one of the most prominent female Italian exports to Hollywood, along with her compatriots Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida and Claudia Cardinale. In addition, Martinelli’s appearance seemed to be the sine qua non of Italian co-productions of period epics, romantic comedies, erotic sketch movies and spaghetti westerns. Read More...
LouisianaGrand Isle took the first punch from the category 4 hurricane that became one of America’s most powerful storms and the worst in the island’s history
David Sears spent six weeks sleeping outside on the splintered remains of his home on Grand Isle, Louisiana. The house was destroyed by Hurricane Ida at the end of August but Sears had nowhere else to go. So he returned to this barrier island, out in the gulf of Mexico, and lived on his front porch for over a month. Read More...