Craft for testing can have a mass of up to 270 tonnes and either be built in the chamber or brought in prefabricated via two 15 × 15 m doors and three sets of standard-gauge rail tracks. The ...

Because it's so close to a volcano, any small tremors triggered by the scientists poking into the chamber are unlikely to make an impact, Jon Gluyas, a professor of Earth sciences at Durham ...

In 2004, Guinness World Records certified the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories as the quietest place on Earth, with an ambient sound level of –9.4 decibels A-weighted. (“A-weighting ...