There’s an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don’t have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html

It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests

To sum up, it’s not about total silence, it’s about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as “sound” rather than the lack of sound.

Or is it… EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE

I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we’re going to ask them whether or not that’s a good plan first in our timeline.

Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.

Great. Capitalism literally makes you stupid.

I just did some Googling and apparently, that is a more recent development (at least for physics, medicine and chemistry). Science Nobel laureates used to be young, or at least much younger, but now they are skewing much older. This article discusses it: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899

I think once you win a Nobel, it’s okay to rest on your laurels.

The Power Glove. It’s so rad.