14-08-21 The young boy protested vigorously when his mother asked him to take his little sister along fishing. The last time she came, he objected, I didn't catch a single fish. I'll talk to her, his mother said, and I promise this time she won't make any no...

14-02-26 Clamor Nick Norwood The mill's non-stop noise, a whir and a clangor（叮当声） , follows him home, over the bridge and up the hill, while at his back it goes on wheezing, chuffing lint through manifold（多方面的） windows, into the village with the l...

13-11-25 Many owl species have developed specialized plumage to effectively eliminate the aerodynamic（空气动力学的） noise from their wings -- allowing them to hunt and capture their prey in silence. A research group working to solve the mystery of exactly...

13-11-19 Computer engineers and hearing scientists at The Ohio State University have made a potential breakthrough in solving a 50-year-old problem in hearing technology: how to help the hearing-impaired understand speech in the midst of background noise. In...

13-11-17 To most people, noise pollution is a jet engine roaring over their head. For one Spanish woman, it was a neighbor playing the piano more softly than a spoken conversation. 西班牙一名钢琴家练琴被指扰民，受害人自称因噪音污染患上多种疾...

13-10-09 The risks of stroke, heart and circulatory disease are higher in areas with a lot of aircraft noise, researchers say. 研究人员称，在有大量飞机噪音的区域居住的人，患中风、心血管疾病的几率较高。 Their study of 3.6 million residents near Heathrow Airpo...

13-02-27 A new study published in Biology Letters found that ship noise affects crab metabolism（新陈代谢） , with largest crabs faring worst, and found little evidence that crabs acclimatise（适应，习惯） to noise over time. The team from the Universities o...

12-10-19 Noise can be distracting, especially to a person trying to concentrate on a difficult task. Studying annoying noises helps architects（建筑师） design better building environments and policy makers choose effective noise regulations. To better under...

12-07-07 Maria Sharapova, the former Wimbledon champion dubbed the Queen of Screams, claimed yesterday that she was too old to stop grunting on court. 前温网女单冠军玛利亚莎拉波娃绰号是尖叫女王，她昨天表示自己年纪太大，已经改不掉场上尖叫的习惯。 After cement...

12-03-22 A growing body of research shows that birds and other animals change their behavior in response to humanmade noise, such as the din（喧嚣） of traffic or the hum（嗡嗡声） of machinery. But human clamor doesn't just affect animals. Because many anim...