At a city park in Antwerp, the sound of traffic is constant. The park sits next to a major highway. But the city is now redesigning the space to make it more peaceful—including adding noise-canceling ...

Scientists have built noise-canceling headphones that filter out specific types of sound in real-time — such as birds chirping or car horns blaring — thanks to a deep learning artificial intelligence ...

Listening to recordings of natural soundscapes may help reduce anxiety and stress, but adding in high-traffic noise can mask the potential benefit, new research shows. Researchers enrolled 68 adults ...

A neural network can recognize and filter out certain sounds, changing the way we choose to experience the world around us. This is a subscriber-only story. Future noise-canceling headphones could let ...

It’s making these angry birds choose fight over flight. Humans aren’t the only ones who are prone to road rage. Scientists have found that certain songbirds in the Galapagos behave more aggressively ...

A team led by researchers at the University of Washington has developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. In this provided photo, ...

Researchers have developed deep-learning algorithms that let users pick which sounds filter through their headphones in real time. Either through voice commands or a smartphone app, headphone wearers ...