They call New York the city that never sleeps, but Peter Lucian thinks he has the solution for the Big Apple’s many insomniacs. In “The Sound of Silence,” Peter — who is not a scientist, but a made-up ...

Silence has been described as simply the absence of sound — like the end of a song just before the next one starts or the lull in a conversation. For a long time, it’s been considered the placeholder ...

On Twitter last week (Nov. 20), O'Brien jokingly revealed that Disturbed's "cover of 'The Sound of Silence' is the first clip to crack 100 million views on my YouTube channel. I always knew that heavy ...

Taylor Swift cried offstage at her first concert after 3 fans were killed Chef saves elderly man after he didn't show up at ...

What is silence, exactly? In quiet moments, does the brain register silence the same way it hears, say, music? Or does it demarcate silence as the gaps between noises? Psychologists and philosophers ...

As a Petty Officer on active duty in the U.S. Navy, Nick Hair spent nine consecutive months living on a ship the size of a city with 4,000 sailors on round-the-clock shifts. He slept in a room stuffed ...

Shorelines, though never silent, are often quiet. Beneath the rumble of the surf, the lapping of wavelets, the keening of gulls, the whoosh of wind, is a quiet that we can hear perfectly well. Even if ...

The course title was "Negative Theology: Lamentations, The Cloud of Unknowing, and The Dark Night of the Soul." Before class started at 9 a.m. I had to have the house cleaned to my military officer ...

Synesthete Lidell Simpson composes sounds he senses in his "inner hearing." Lidell Simpson likes to say that though he's deaf, he's never known a day of silence in his life. His "inner" synesthetic ...