If you’ve ever been inside a large public space or an airy loft with bare walls and hard surface floors, you may have noticed a distinctive ringing sound called flutter echo. This phenomenon occurs ...

While noise in a hospital may seem a simple nuisance, it can affect patients’ health and satisfaction, which in turn can impact hospitals’ reimbursement. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare ...

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Even modest increases in noise above the background level disturb the sleep of seniors in nursing homes, an ongoing study shows. Now, researchers will test the effectiveness of several noise-reducing ...

Did you know that wires can be used to ionize air to make a loudspeaker? Simply put, it’s possible to generate sound by creating an electric field in a set of parallel wires, aka a plasma transducer, ...

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HandHeldItems has a killer deal on a pair of sound-isolating earphones that promise much better audio than you get from stock MP3-player earbuds. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and ...