If you live in a noisy urban area, you're gonna love the sound of this. Researchers in Switzerland have developed a material that can dampen street noise while being four times thinner than ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stumbled onto what one called a “very radical” discovery — the new material they had created, akin to silk, could function much in the way a ...

There may be new hope for people with noisy neighbors. Scientists at MIT have developed a method of using thin sheets of fabric to either cancel or block sound – in the latter case, the racket even ...