What are the loudest sounds at UB? Where are the university’s quietest spots? What unlikely noises here are around 60 decibels, the level typically associated with a normal conversation between two ...

More than a year after the New Orleans City Council threw up its hands on an attempt to revamp the city’s sound ordinance, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration is taking its first small steps into ...

Everything you need to know about ambient noise monitoring—from sensor technologies to reporting best practices.

WEST STOCKBRIDGE — Amy Brentano says she wants to stop jumping through the “hoops” required to continue holding shows at The Foundry in the heart of town. Specifically, Brentano is referring to ...

At a time when ocean noise is receiving increased global attention, researchers have developed an effective method to use an underwater robotic glider to measure sound levels over broad areas of the ...

Nuclear physicists proposed a method to measure the speed of sound characterizing matter created in nuclear collisions. Heavy nuclei consist of hundreds of protons and neutrons (belonging to a group ...