Archive for July 2016

We can only warn them! Scores of millennials could be deaf by the time they reach 40 – because they’re listening to music too loud, claims a new study by a team at the University of Sao Paulo’s Medical School in Brazil. Soaring numbers of teenagers are being diagnosed with tinnitus, a permanent ringing or…

LOUD busking will be banned along a key CBD street amid hundreds of complaints about excessive noise. Under a three-month City of Melbourne trial, Swanston St will be off-limits to amplified performances from August 1, and the ban could become permanent. The shock move comes a month after the Sunday Herald Sun revealed that a…

People find alcohol sweeter in noisy environments, which might drown out our ability to judge how much we’re drinking, according to new research. The research, conducted by Dr Lorenzo Stafford, a psychologist from the University of Portsmouth, is the first experimental study to find out how music can alter the taste of alcohol. Dr Stafford…