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Can sound be used as a weapon? 4 questions answered

  • Written by Kevin Fu, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Editor’s note: Government and academic investigators continue to probe reports from Cuba that, starting in 2016 and continuing through 2017, U.S. and Canadian diplomats and tourists may have been subjected to a “sonic weapon,” damaging...

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