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Special silk sheets suppress sound by giving off good vibrations | Scientists at MIT have developed a method of using thin sheets of fabric to either cancel or block sound – in the latter case, the racket even gets reflected back to its maker.


There may be new hope for people with noisy neighbors. Scientists at MIT have developed a method of using thin sheets of fabric to either cancel or block sound – in the latter case, the racket even gets reflected back to its maker.

Scientists at MIT have developed a method of using thin sheets of fabric to either cancel or block sound – in the latter case, the racket even gets reflected back to its maker. Building upon a previous MIT study in which sheets of fabric were converted into microphones, this latest project turns them into speakers. We thought creating silence could be even more valuable," says the lead author of the study, PhD student Grace (Noel) Yang.

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