When you’re suddenly able to understand someone despite their thick accent, or finally make out the lyrics of a song, your brain appears to be re-tuning to recognize speech that was previously ...

White noise is a random signal or sound with all frequencies in a specific range with equal power, and has a flat power spectrum. In common speech, one can usually hear it as a consistent hiss or a ...

We've all heard of white noise, best known at one point for the snow on our television sets when the cable was out. It's the most popular of all the colors of noise out there, often on sound machines ...

For cellphone whisperers, families that live near highways, airports or trains, music-loving commuters, and even individual cells, noise is an inescapable fact of life. In everyday human experience, ...