It haunts you when you're trying to eat your dinner in peace. It disturbs you when you're trying to watch TV. It even keeps you awake in the wee small hours. SEE ALSO: Scientists just named a newly ...

It’s tempting to think that the “plink” sound produced by a falling water droplet on a liquid surface is caused by the droplet itself, but new research points to an unexpected source of this familiar, ...

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The irritating sound of the dripping water from a faucet or from a leaking roof during the rainy season has kept generations of people awake at night. The noise has been extremely frustrating that ...

Does the sound of a leaky faucet drive you nuts? Dish soap might save you, scientists claim. Until this week, no one understood how dripping water makes that infuriating "plink." In a paper published ...