Are computerized hospital alarms trying to tell us too much? The beeping of monitors has become the ever-present audio wallpaper of hospital units. Medical devices monitoring patients send off alerts ...

This concise alarm-clock rhythm delivers an unmistakably familiar urgency. The beat consists of a clean, electronic “beep” pattern that threads through steady, metronomic pulses before tightening into ...

California neighborhoods are about to get noisy with the sound of dying carbon monoxide alarms. And the sounds can be really annoying, especially to anyone with sensitive ears. The high-pitched sound ...