If you live in an urban landscape, you may be all too familiar with the sound of traffic rushing past, dogs barking or the voices of people gathering right outside your bedroom window. Even if you don ...

"Oh, the noise! Oh the Noise! Noise! Noise! Noise!" Sound familiar? Maybe a bit like you — when you're being victimized by lawnmowers, leaf blowers, weed-whackers, commercial jets, low-flying ...

A mysterious, low-frequency noise has settled over the small town of Omagh in Northern Ireland, and is keeping people awake. It’s called “The Hum,” and reports of this phenomenon have been popping up ...

People can describe noise using color, similar to how they may describe light. Two colors of noise are pink and white, which may have many potential applications, such as aiding sleep. A person can ...

“Noise” is a fuzzy word—a noisy one, in the statistical sense. Its meanings run the gamut from the negative to the positive, from the overpowering to the mysterious, from anarchy to sublimity. The ...

If you're struggling to sleep, there are certain sounds, like those from white noise machines, that can help block out unwanted noise and lull you to sleep at the same time. Though you've likely heard ...

It was only in the pre-dawn hours that John Griebsch heard the Hum. This was 15 years ago, when he lived in Pultneyville, the little community on the Lake Ontario shoreline in Wayne County. But he and ...