Is it one of the best children’s tunes? Is it annoying because of it? “Yellow Submarine” might be a fan favorite for some, but its sound effects are annoying for others. When The Beatles recorded the ...

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 ...

Even the smartest people can't help but get annoyed by these unnecessary sounds. Struggling with misophonia — an experience of extremely strong anxiety, disgust, and irritation in response to certain ...

The sound of someone sniffling can be irritating, but that has almost nothing to do with the sound itself, new Carnegie Mellon University research shows. “It’s not the sound, it’s how I feel about the ...

Every worker or students who is forced to get up early has probably felt the impulse to chuck their annoying alarm clock at the wall. Now, it turns out that the harshness of one’s alarm sound may be ...