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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Marketed as a ticket to deeper sleep, the soft hum of pink noise has become part of millions’ nightly routines. However, its use may come at the cost of sleep quality, a University of ...

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.

It is the rare condominium association whose board of directors has not had some complaints about noise from a unit, either above, below, next door, outside or all of these. It could be the loud ...

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 ...

The noise sounds like wind, or heavy rain, or the steady hum of an airline jet. It sounds like water rushing somewhere in the distance, like a gentle fan ruffling currents of cool air. It’s soothing, ...

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 ...

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 ...