In an era where the background hum of urban life constantly intrudes upon our daily routines, a new development in sound-suppression technology promises to turn down the volume. Researchers from MIT have engineered a special silk fabric so thin it’s barely thicker than a human hair yet powerful enough significantly to reduce noise transmission in large spaces.
This isn’t any simple fabric that you can hang like a curtain though. Its soundproofing secret lies in piezo-electric fibers that force the fabric to remain still, thereby blocking acoustic vibrations.
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