I winced as we sat in the audience of an experimental music concert played by a string quartet. Calling it music was being ...

A hero walking into a troubled, belligerent town is not an alien premise in Western movies. But when he walks in and auditions for the role of the town’s apex predator, with a tinge of dry humor, that ...

Minnesota has its share of tourist attractions, but none quite as wonderfully strange as a concrete box slowly being ...

You’ve got a legitimate reason to flinch when you’re peeling off a roll of Scotch tape. That annoying screech is actually tiny cracks traveling at supersonic speeds. An international team of ...

Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

'With the sound, we’re trying to paint a picture of what is Rocky's sonic soul.' ...

Experiments have uncovered the physical mechanism responsible for the screeching sound that adhesive tape makes when peeled from a roll 1. Many of us will be familiar with the unpleasant squeal of ...

Residents living near a booster pump station in Indian Harbour Beach say persistent noise from the facility has disrupted their lives. In some cases, they say it has affected their health. For those ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

Erik Aadahl, the sound designer behind “Project Hail Mary” and 2014’s “Godzilla,” uses his background in biology to bring ...