What horrible sounds do you have a visceral reaction to? Nails on a chalkboard? Styrofoam squeaks? Turns out, there's a science behind why certain sounds are so irritating to humans, and the ...

At every minute of every day, it seems, scientists are busily working to cure cancer and save the environment and make better robots who can do our jobs for us, and also to figure out why we hate the ...

Screeeeeeeech. Even imagining the sound of a person's fingernails scraping down a chalkboard is horrible. Now, new research helps suggest why the noise is such a special kind of awful. The frequency ...

Anyone who has cringed at the sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard has likely experienced the same feeling whenever President Joe Biden speaks. The president visited Maui this week (which ...

Laurie Holler says she moved up to Ossining for the quiet - specifically to a place that looks like a pristine hiking trail, where the only sounds are usually cicadas and birds. She says that since ...

Sounds that could be compared to nails scraping down a chalkboard are music to these NASA engineers' ears. Those bangs and rattles came from 150 million miles away via NASA's Mars Perseverance rover ...

Anyone who has cringed at the sound of fingernails scratching on a chalkboard has likely experienced the same feeling whenever President Biden speaks. The president visited Maui this week (which he ...

Sounds that could be compared to nails scraping down a chalkboard are music to these NASA engineers' ears. Those bangs and rattles came from 150 million miles away via NASA's Mars Perseverance rover ...