Choosing drapery, rugs, wall treatments, and appliances with intention can significantly reduce the noise in your home. Here's some expert guidance on small changes that make a big impact.

Air handlers are the heart of an HVAC system, moving the conditioned air through a building. Like a heart, they can generate a lot of noise while operating. Manufacturers, however, are taking steps to ...

This may not fit in "other hardware", but this seemed to be the closest fit, so here it is. We got an outdoor heat pump with a heat strip/air handler installed at our house last year. It's working ...

Scientists show that a thin layer of plasma, created by ionizing air, could be promising as an active sound absorber, with applications in noise control and room acoustics. Did you know that wires can ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a principal and lead medical planner with NBBJ. It goes without saying that throughout the coronavirus pandemic, healthcare ...

Electrical noise, like taxes, is always with us. Most of the time noise is small and we can ignore it, but there are some measurement circumstances where noise must be dealt with. What can be done to ...

Did you know that wires can be used to ionize air to make a loudspeaker? Simply put, it’s possible to generate sound by creating an electric field in a set of parallel wires, aka a plasma transducer, ...