Our older house is not very soundproof. Do you have tips for making it quieter both in this old house and for when we plan and design our future house? — Steve R. Dear Steve: Inadequate soundproofing, ...

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 ...

For light sleepers even the tiniest of sounds in the night can rouse them from their rest, leaving them feeling exhausted the next day. But a new material that can block out noise at the touch of a ...