Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

HELSINKI, Finland - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows the exterior of the Helsinki Music Center, which officially opened the same day. The acoustics for the venue have been designed by Japanese sound expert Yasuhisa Toyota.

Hungarian State Opera House reopens after five-year renovation

STORY: Hungarian State Opera House reopens after five-year renovation DATELINE: March 12, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:09 LOCATION: Budapest CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Hungarian State Opera House STORYLINE: The Hungarian State Opera House reopened on Saturday after five years of renovation. Led by architect Gabor Zoboki, the reconstruction recreated the original look and decoration of the building while upgrading functionality and stage technologies. The reconstruction also includes a total renovation of the audience areas, orchestral areas and acoustics. The opera house was built in 1884 by Hungarian architect Miklos Ybl. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Budapest. (XHTV)

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

NASA Delays The James Webb Space Telescope Launch Again

★Handout photo dated November 30, 2016 of what looks like a teleporter from science fiction being draped over NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, is actually a "clean tent." The clean tent protects Webb from dust and dirt when engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland transport the next generation space telescope out of the relatively dust-free cleanroom and into the shirtsleeve environment of the vibration and acoustics testing areas. In two years, a rocket will be the transporter that carries the Webb into space so it can orbit one million miles from Earth and peer back over 13.5 billion years to see the first stars and galaxies forming out of the darkness of the early universe. Last summer, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) set an October 31, 2021, launch date for the $ 10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, but it's having to delay the science observ

Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

HELSINKI, Finland - Japanese sound expert Yasuhisa Toyota shows journalists on Aug. 31, 2011 a concert hall at the Helsinki Music Center, which officially opened the same day. Toyota has helped to design the acoustics for the new venue. (Kyodo)

Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

Finland music center opens with help from Japanese acoustician

HELSINKI, Finland - Photo taken on Aug. 31, 2011 shows the exterior of the Helsinki Music Center, which officially opened the same day. The acoustics for the venue have been designed by Japanese sound expert Yasuhisa Toyota. (Kyodo)

Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize winner

Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize winner

Screenshot image shows an international research team, the winner of the Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize, attending the award ceremony held online on Sept. 17, 2020. They won the spoof prize for their study that discovered an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.

Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize winner

Ig Nobel's Acoustics prize winner

Screenshot image shows Japanese scientist Takeshi Nishimura, an associate professor at Kyoto University, as he appears on the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony held online on Sept. 17, 2020. An international research team, including Nishimura, won the Acoustics prize of the spoof awards for their study that discovered an alligator's pitch rises after it inhales helium-enriched air.