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Long reads on sound, waves and healing — reported, sourced, and written to be read twice.

Thirteen unresponsive ICU patients changed a tone using thought alone
In a Columbia study of 41 brain-injured patients who could not move or speak, a third shifted a beep’s pitch through bedside EEG, and…

Hearing-aid users died less often in a 64,000-person, four-country study
Across Australia, Iceland, the US and Norway, people with hearing loss who wore hearing aids had a 9 to 15% lower risk of death,…

Pink noise cost sleepers 19 minutes of REM in a Penn lab
A week of sleep-lab nights with 25 adults found that the steady hiss sold as a sleep aid trimmed dream sleep, and that foam…

The 40 Hz Alzheimer’s bet gets its verdict before year end
Cognito Therapeutics’ 670-patient HOPE trial of a flickering, humming headset reads out by December, and every efficacy number so far comes from 76 people.

Sound baths are everywhere in 2026, and the science is still small
From a Seattle cathedral nap concert to office wellness hours, singing-bowl sessions have gone mainstream on studies of about 50 people and an explanation…