{
  "id": 8273253,
  "title": "Background hums and buzzes affect human behavior, researcher finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/background-hums-and-buzzes-affect-human-behavior-researcher-finds",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-18T17:00:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-background-affect-human-behavior.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Have you ever stopped and listened to the background sounds in a room you are in? The hum of the ventilation? The buzz of electricity? While most of the time we are barely aware of these sounds, Arthur Jinyue Guo, a researcher at the RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Rhythm, Time and Motion, has revealed that they nevertheless affect our behavior.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}