Written on 11-05-2024

There’s a room in a lab in Minnesota that is so quiet that no one has been able to stay in it for more than 45 minutes. That’s partly because in the absence of external noise, people hear their own bodies in an unprecedented way, and have trouble orienting themselves in space—it even makes it harder to stand up.

Learn why here, on Smithsonian Mag (tip: this is about negative decibels).