The problem becomes more common as we age: A friend is talking to you ... placed in the loud party scenario. A constant background noise — in this case, a sound resembling a U.S. police siren ...

It's the perennial "cocktail party problem" - standing in a room full of people ... and blurs out the foreground and background. “The results don’t sound crystal clear when you can only ...

The researchers described the universe's gravitational wave background as the equivalent of hearing the hum of a large group of people talking at a party, without being able to distinguish any ...