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Creating a quieter environment can improve your health – but you have to know what you’re listening for.
Noise concerns have tanked several data centres proposed in residential areas in Australia. But is the noise just annoying, or is it bad for our health?
Constant urban noise causes chronic stress, and poorer areas are exposed to more of it.
The constant noise of traffic is so ubiquitous, it is barely noticeable to our ears – until we step into a roadless forest and experience true quiet.
If the slightest sound wakes you, you might wish you slept more deeply. But several factors shape how much shut-eye you get.
State lawmakers are trying to shield tracks from nuisance lawsuits − but the larger threat may be rising land values and redevelopment pressures.
Many people use pink, white or brown noise to concentrate or fall asleep faster.
Humans crave certainty in an increasingly uncertain world. Liberal politicians must find a way to provide it.
Listening to music and doing homework can be in harmony − as long as you turn down the volume.
Framing dissent and poverty as a menace to public order can threaten fundamental rights, particularly when it’s used to justify the deployment of predictive technology.
Just as human biases show up in machine learning systems, so, too, do people’s vagaries and vicissitudes.
As US cities struggle to reduce homelessness, two scholars explain how planners can reform shelter design to be more humane and to prioritize mental health and well-being.
The increase in the use of noise-cancelling devices at work is a plus for productivity but can discourage collaboration.
Nighttime is much more than a source of danger or an occasion to party – it’s a portal into a different world, with rhythms, challenges and lifestyles of its own.
The multi-billion-dollar whale-watching industry enables millions of people to see these magnificent creatures up close. But the noise made by so many boats is a threat to whales’ wellbeing.
An epigenetic model of cancer that incorporates the concept of stochasticity could also explain why cancer risk increases with age and how biological development can be reversible.
Here are some tips of how to rethink the sound of your leaking tap, which should help bring you a decent night’s sleep. Or you could just fix the tap.
Humans are ‘noisy neighbours’ whose behaviour has long lasting ecological and evolutionary effects on other species.
Noise-induced hearing loss is permanent, which is why looking after your hearing while you’re young is so crucial.
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Professor of Digital Sound and Interactive Media, Arizona State University
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Associate Dean and Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra
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Professor of Media Studies, Penn State
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Honorary Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia
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Reader in Applied Cognitive Psychology, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, Adelaide University
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Professor of Computational Aeroacoustics, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor of Biology, University at Buffalo
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Managing Director of the Centre for Whale Research (Western Australia), Centre for Whale Research
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Associate Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Associate, University at Buffalo
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Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London
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Lecturer, Geography and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Psychology, University of the Witwatersrand