Noise —unwanted and/or harmful sound— is an underappreciated environmental stressor. Exposure to excessive noise from transportation, construction, outdoor power equipment, industrial machinery, ...

Imagine sitting in a café where the clatter of a fork hitting a plate across the room drowns out your conversation with the person sitting next to you. Have you ever worked in an open office filled ...

When lowering the volume of loudspeakers brought tension in many parts of the country, Uttar Pradesh set an example as over 1.29 lakh loudspeakers were either switched off or their volume was lowered ...

SINGAPORE: For months, Wayne Chan has been putting up with renovation noise coming from neighbouring units. The full-time emcee, who has had to host events virtually from home during the pandemic, was ...

Hearing – one of the human body’s five senses – enables our interaction with sound, a crucial factor for daily communication and much more. One commonly hears people say a place is noisy, but what ...

Pickleball is America's fastest growing sport, but it has a noise problem. One man is on a mission to fix that. Who is he? Bob Unetich. Before he was a pickleball lover, Unetich was an engineer. And ...