When I have insomnia, I hear every car and conversation that passes outside my house. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that when I hear every car and conversation outside my house, I get ...

Noise pollution is one of the bugbears of modern life. The sound of machinery, engines, neighbours and the like can seriously affect our quality of life and that of the other creatures that share this ...

Glass windows typically offer some amount of sound proofing, sometimes unintentionally. In general, ventilation is required to achieve large sound transmission. But some applications -- like gas ...

San Francisco—Soundproof Windows Inc. came to the rescue when two San Francisco homeowners decided they could no longer lose sleep from incessant street-level noise. Jeff and Kristina Abadie, who had ...