Aggressive alarm noises will definitely wake you up, but they have the potential to ruin your day, too. You know what’s challenging? Waking up every day at the crack of dawn, getting up to get ready ...

Overview:  Smart alarm clocks in 2025 focus on calm waking, not loud noise. Light and soft sound now guide the body out of ...

If you own an Amazon Echo, there’s a chance that just reading that word triggered a pavlovian “bimm” in your mind. Or, if you have the wake sound disabled, maybe it’s the timer alarm that makes you ...

I used to be able to hear 3kHz easily but as my hair cells fade into the sunset that frequency now seems to be down 3 or 6 dB. As a consequence the high pitched "beep beep" sound on my portable alarm ...

Morning Edition asked its listeners to share recordings of daybreak where they live. We received more than 100 submissions, and here is a sampling of what our listeners' world sounds like when it's ...

You know what’s challenging? Waking up every day at the crack of dawn, getting up to get ready for your 9-to-5, dropping your children off at school or going to university. Whatever the reason you’re ...