SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- It's not a bird, it's not a plane, but if you look up while in San Francisco's financial district Sunday night, you just might see two low-flying helicopters. The aircraft will ...

Our modern world is loud. Just sitting in a car, or an airplane, or watching movie previews, we are bombarded with sound. Even when those noises aren’t damaging to the sensitive microphone that is our ...

"The question is: how much of this effect is due to particle pollution, and how much is noise?” the study author asked. If you’ve ever worked in a retail environment in which the same playlist is spun ...

Many parents know that loud noise can hurt a child’s hearing. Very loud sounds—from fireworks or firearms, for example—can cause immediate damage. Using personal listening devices for music, videos ...

Noise pollution is nothing new: An 1856 editorial in London’s Times complained of the city’s “noisy, dizzy, scatterbrained atmosphere,” and in 1866, American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne groused that ...

Humans are a noisy species. Think about our amplified music, our cars and trucks, construction equipment, chainsaws, aircraft, wind farms and snowmobiles. There is no doubt that humans alter the ...

From a blackbird’s song to the rumble of a passing train, sounds are produced by vibrations moving through the air, ground, or water in invisible waves. When those soundwaves enter your ear, they make ...