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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adding noise to your sleep routine may sound counterintuitive, but many people swear by wrapping themselves in a blanket of sound to get a better night of rest. You’ve probably heard of white noise.

Sue Taylor first started hearing it at night in 2009. A retired psychiatric nurse, Taylor lives in Roslin, Scotland, a small village seven miles outside of Edinburgh. “A thick, low hum,” is how she ...

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 ...

Stephen Stansfeld consults to Arup UK, Parsons Brinckerhoff and Thames Tideway Tunnel. He has received funding for noise research from the European Commission, DEFRA and Local Authorities related to ...