To prevent the noise without losing natural ventilation, a new device that can reduce the intensity of sound passing through open windows is presented in a proof-of-principle study in Scientific Reports.
It fits into a two-panel sliding window and can decrease the perceived loudness of urban transportation noises by up to half (10 decibel reduction).
Research Paper: Active control of broadband sound through the open aperture of a full-sized domestic window https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-66563-z
News Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/sr-ern070320.php
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