One of the first noises I was terrified of as a child was the sound of water going down the bathtub drain. I remember covering my ears and running out of the room as soon as the plug was pulled to ...

Charles Luther used a bullhorn to get his message across at a downtown intersection. Police said he violated the noise ordinance. Why he disagrees.

But one technical area is complained about more than any other: the sound. Many complaints are about audibility, including background music being too loud, with loudness (explained below ...

Sound is an important component of health and happiness, but with hearing loss, sometimes things are too quiet. Other times too loud. It's complicated!

At a high level, the solution is fairly straightforward; when there is loud music playing in a movie, turn the volume down. The challenge is how to actually achieve that. The first step was ...

Noise-induced hearing loss can be temporary or permanent. It’s not as much a matter of how loud a sound seems, but how forcefully the sound waves enter the structure of your ear. If someone ever ...