Finding quiet comfort “We expect that preschool children entering school for the first time normally feel stressed by the difficulty of verbal communication,” Matsuoka said.

City leaders and other community members celebrated the groundbreaking for the Environmental Nature Center’s 8,000-square-foot, three-classroom preschool Thursday evening in Newport Beach.

Everything vibrates, and sound passes through and around us all the time. Sound is a critical environmental signifier. Increasingly, we are learning that humans and animals are not the only ...

Sound interacts with actual environments in complex ways that are affected by nearly every aspect of the physical environment. The propagation of a sound wave in air, for instance, is influenced by ...