The plastic vuvuzela noisemaker, scourge of the human ear and omnipresent World Cup companion, may be bad for our hearing—but it has been terrific for our brains. Around the world, human ingenuity has ...

There is a social media movement afoot that intends to bring the vuvuzelas -- the bane of ear drums within hearing distance of a TV set carrying a World Cup soccer match -- to the world of college ...

Discussions about the popular instrument called the vuvuzela blown by South African football fans have dominated the blogosphere since the beginning of Confederations Cup 2009 in South Africa, which ...

What’s plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It’s the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it’s come to symbolize the sport in the ...

What's plastic, a metre long, brightly coloured and sounds like an elephant? It's the vuvuzela, the noise-making trumpet of South African football fans, and it's come to symbolise the sport in the ...

For the 2014 World Cup soccer matches, Brazilian government officials have banned the percussion instrument known as the caxilora from stadiums where matches will be held. So the world will not ...

An infamous plastic horn, vuvuzela, was banned in previous years for its annoying sound has returned to the football stadiums during the ongoing 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The vuvuzela, ...