Is it one of the best children’s tunes? Is it annoying because of it? “Yellow Submarine” might be a fan favorite for some, but its sound effects are annoying for others. When The Beatles recorded the ...

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took it for a video game, but then realized the sound materialized ...

Everyone has been in an absolutely brutal situation before where a never-ending noise ruins any chance they had of focusing. Some people are able to let distracting sounds fade to the background more ...

The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain. Researchers found ...

A recent NASA study has found that the noise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is substantially more unpleasant to people than the noise produced by the current four-wheeled standard of ...

Sometimes, teenagers make irritating noises. Now we know what those noises are called. Over at The Week, editor (and linguist) James Harbeck has penned an excellent piece titled, quite simply, ...