Oct. 12, 2012 -- The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain.

Hear! Hear! We’re surrounded by the sounds of the season. Most are delightful but some sounds can be downright annoying. East County shoppers were interviewed at random about the good and bad sounds ...

Remember that time when the sound of nail on the blackboard which that annoying boy in your class always produced had often irritated you, so much so that you contemplated getting into a fight? Now, a ...

Earlier this month, a kind of chirping, rainforest-y sound sprung up in my apartment. It came from my roommate’s room. At first, I took it for a video game, but then realized the sound materialized ...

A national sound report, conducted by Sony, found that almost all Australians (95 per cent) are irritated by unwanted noises. The report examined 1,000 Australians from across the country to ...

Before shelter-in-place orders were issued across the country and people started working from home en masse, I used noise-cancelling headphones a lot at the office. Whether to block out colleagues ...

The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain. Researchers found ...