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 ...

There are certain sounds that drive us batty. For many people, it's nails on a chalkboard. For me, it's the squeaking sound of styrofoam. What causes this reaction? —Brepark, via the Straight Dope ...

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 ...

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 ...