Oct. 12, 2012 -- The sound of nails on a chalkboard or screams may send shivers down the spine for a good reason. A new study shows annoying sounds trigger a highly emotional response in the brain.

Hooray for brave science, which has undertaken a new study to prove what the most annoying sound in the entire world is. These SUNY New Paltz researchers are intrepid, indeed! Analyzing people’s ...

What’s the most annoying sound you can think of? For Susan Rogers, it’s her cell phone. Its jingle harks back to her days as a mixer and sound engineer for the famed musician Prince, when ...

Over the last couple days, an update for the Facebook app on iOS and Android has been rolling out. You may have noticed one very distinct change: weird chirping sounds. Here is how you can turn them ...

When I move from one Web site to an- other, I get an annoying sound. I’d like to remove it but don’t know how. I suppose that I should go to the Sounds and Audio Devices part of Control Panel, but ...

Carryl Baldwin swears she wasn't trying to get on people's nerves when she engineered the high-pitched, jarring alarm that one headline dubbed "The Most Annoying Sound Ever." After years of research, ...

Every worker or students who is forced to get up early has probably felt the impulse to chuck their annoying alarm clock at the wall. Now, it turns out that the harshness of one’s alarm sound may be ...