Ambience (sic) is a popular sleep sound app for Android. It features a clean, simple UI along with a variety of calming sounds. They include things like rain, waves, crickets, and even some music. It ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...

If you were old enough to buy CDs in the ’90s, you may remember listening stations at superstores that featured music by some of nature’s noisiest creatures: birds. These CDs blended classical music ...

What Nature Can Teach Us About Better Acoustic Design: Lencore’s sound masking systems take inspiration from natural soundscapes to create environments that help people focus, relax, and perform ...

Tips for Bringing the Outdoors In There are days when getting outside just isn’t possible, whether it’s because of weather, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the multi-instrumentalist James Bishop about how he transforms recordings of natural objects into music. When the musician James Bishop hiked a section of the Pacific ...

Birds chirping in the forest, waves crashing in the ocean, and the sound of thunderstorms are some of nature's beloved symphonies. These sounds are inseparable from the human experience not only as ...

We may live without much thought of the complicated human-wrought infrastructure that makes our lives comfortable, convenient ...

Have you ever listened to a recording of birdsong? Or ocean waves? The howling of wolves, or thunder and rain? If you have, did you ever wonder whether nature was getting any compensation for ...

In ways, it is difficult to believe that it has been almost a year since we moved to Crawfordville after down-sizing from our Tallahassee home. It was more of an adjustment for me than for my husband, ...

Gambling addiction, also called “pathological gambling” and “gambling disorder (GD),” is known to have severe economic, social, mental, and physical consequences on those affected. One of the major ...