A mysterious, low-frequency noise has settled over the small town of Omagh in Northern Ireland, and is keeping people awake. It’s called “The Hum,” and reports of this phenomenon have been popping up ...

Adding noise to your sleep routine may sound counterintuitive, but many people swear by wrapping themselves in a blanket of sound to get a better night of rest. You’ve probably heard of white noise.

Sue Taylor first started hearing it at night in 2009. A retired psychiatric nurse, Taylor lives in Roslin, Scotland, a small village seven miles outside of Edinburgh. “A thick, low hum,” is how she ...

“Noise” is a fuzzy word—a noisy one, in the statistical sense. Its meanings run the gamut from the negative to the positive, from the overpowering to the mysterious, from anarchy to sublimity. The ...

So you just unboxed your new entertainment gear, hooked everything up, and you hear buzz, whine, hiss, chatter, or any number of other annoying noises that have been known to plague audio equipment.

I cannot decide if The Hum is a very silly or very ominous title for a horror game. It's vague and innocuous, but it heralds an apocalyptic alien invasion, which makes it suddenly a lot more menacing.