This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

@hilde45 

The story in the New Yorker is interesting and enlightening.  I had never thought of how far reaching these noise concerns are.  Thanks.

@abnerjack You're most welcome. And if we, in audio, have not made the connection, it's hard to imagine others fully realizing it (other than the biologists).

If they make blackout curtains with this tech I'm totally in.

@abnerjack 

Thanks for sharing. I will be on lookout for this stop noise bleeding from my dedicated music room. Unfortunately, I can’t install a door so this would be perfect. 

We cannot underestimate noise effect on health... But it is a relatively new scientific priority matter:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41370-024-00642-5

There is more specific details between the relation of music here and specific disorders cure effects.

https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/music-and-health-what-you-need-to-know