In the cockpit, a commercial pilot reduces background noise by using a headset equipped with active noise-reduction technology. That same technology is also available to the passenger in ...

May the best noise win. In a world of cacophony, it may be too much to ask for silence. Even that, as Simon and Garfunkel warned us, has sounds. So what do you do? Counteract sound with sound. Set a ...

To pilots, passengers, increasingly to groundlings, is airplane noise a plague. To military airmen it is a serious limitation on operations, an absolute barrier to surprise maneuvers. Uncounted ...

A growing body of research makes it clear that noise pollution can have severely harmful impacts on our health. It has been tied to heart disease and thousands of premature deaths around the world.