A paper published in 2021 in the journal Sleep Medicine found people in the bustling New York area fell asleep faster and ...

A surprising new survey reveals that 38% of Americans now rely on background noise to fall asleep, with nearly half of ...

But this week, a new study suggests that some white noise machines designed for babies can produce harmful amounts of sound. Before you despair about trashing your baby’s hearing, please keep in ...

With many American adults increasingly using white noise machines to help them sleep at night, it’s no surprise that children may also rely on them. However, a new study in the scientific ...

Increasingly, white noise machines are helping people to overcome noise pollution, as Christina Graham, sleep specialist and coach for Noom, explains. "Abrupt noise changes within our environment ...

He did suggest that when baby rats have been raised in continuous white noise – “not super loud, but just enough to mask the environmental sounds” – it kept the auditory cortex (the part of the brain ...

I can’t sleep without something to drown out sounds: white noise. A survey published last year by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found over a third of Americans always or often ...

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