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Which white-noise machine is best? Falling asleep can be hard. A white-noise machine creates a consistent, soothing background noise that can help you drift off to sleep, especially if you’re easily ...

If you’re the parent of a new baby, you’ve experienced the long nights when your baby will wake at the slightest disturbance—a door closing, your dog barking, or merely the creaking of the house.

Many Americans are chronically sleep deprived, whether they suffer from insomnia or sleep apnea or are just not able to clock enough hours in bed. The Centers for Disease Control and ...

Light sleepers understand how noises—the din of a city street, the hum of a radiator, or simply the sound of another human existing next to you—can get in the way of high-quality sleep. That’s where ...

On the Background Sounds page on the iPhone, you can choose from eight different sounds, including bright noise, dark noise, ocean, rain, stream, night and fire. Jim Rossman / TNS I work in a place ...