When Francis Galton coined the term “nature versus nurture” in 1869, he crystallized a debate that had been raging for millennia about what makes us all the way we are. Are individuals intrinsically ...

Pink noise by itself, equivalent to "moderate rainfall," was linked to a loss of 19 minutes of REM sleep. And pink noise combined with aircraft noise led to "significantly shorter" time spent in deep ...

Having trouble falling and staying asleep is a common problem many people have. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine with the Sleep Research Society found that over one-quarter of American adults ...

Pink noise is different. Instead of equal energy at each frequency, the energy halves with every doubling of frequency (so ...

White noise contains sounds from every frequency, resulting in a static effect similar to a wall of sound. Green noise, on other hand, is a filtered version of white noise. By emphasizing mid-range ...

A few weeks ago, I received a copy of the University of British Columbia's Dr. Karen Bakker's book The Sounds of Life: How Digital Technologies Are Bringing Us Closer to the Worlds of Animals and ...

Acoustics and noise control encompass a wide array of disciplines aimed at understanding, managing, and mitigating undesired sound. The field spans fundamental research into sound generation and ...