The quietest place on Earth is so silent that visitors can hear their own bodies in ways they never imagined, right down to the sound of their eyelids closing. The anechoic test chamber at Orfield ...

The term applies to a scattered attention span, exacerbated by social media use, that sends one’s brain flitting from one idea to the next, much like kernels bursting in the microwave. I’m feeling it ...

MINNEAPOLIS - Silence, the quiet between words and sounds. At the world’s “Quietest Place on Earth,” a sound lab inside Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, the silence is haunting. The experience ...

Have you ever heard your eyelids blinking or blood flowing through your veins? It might sound strange, but there is a place on Earth where you can actually hear sounds like these. Orfield Laboratories ...

Here's how the "quietest place on Earth"—a room inside Orfield Laboratories Inc. in Minneapolis—can help your mental health. Even if you feel like you’ve been in a super-quiet space before, it almost ...