LEAVING a work meeting halfway through to cry in the toilets, Helen Burclaff knew she was burnt out and that something had to ...

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A new scientific study is giving fresh hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease by using something very simple sound. Researchers say a special sound frequency may help the brain remove harmful ...

Following stroke, some people experience a language disorder that hinders their ability to process speech sounds. How do their brains change from stroke? Researchers led by Laura Gwilliams, faculty ...

Words with a pleasant sound are easier to remember, a study by the University of Vienna has found. Invented words like "clisious", "smanious" and "drikious" were presented to around 100 ...

Staying focused with so many distractions is challenging, but what if you could use one of the most distracting apps to help you focus? Stop scrolling through endless videos and start using YouTube ...

Silence really is golden — and homeowners are willing to pay more for it. Specifically, when traffic noise fades, home values tend to creep up. A new academic study by the National Bureau of Academic ...

When one pictures New Zealand’s Great Walks and tracks, most people probably think of native birds, silver ferns glistening in the sunlight and streams trickling over ancient rock beds. My mind, ...

Linguists have noticed that many swear words share the same sharp, punchy sounds—hard consonants like “k,” “t,” and “g” that burst out of the mouth rather than flow. When a study examined those sound ...

The $183 billion AI startup recently conducted a study of 132 of its own engineers to understand how AI is changing work. Anthropic is the AI startup behind Claude Code, an AI coding assistant. The ...