The logic behind the assumption that closing your eyes helps with hearing is sound (excuse the pun): The brain can only ...

Have you ever tasted a word, or seen colors while listening to music? If you have, you may be among the 1% to 4% of people ...

Tiny organisms on the ground – bacteria and fungi – have a "superpower" that allows them to reach up into the atmosphere and ...

Common human painkillers significantly change the way Norway lobsters respond to an unpleasant stimulus, scientists have ...

The growth of the human population has not always been a smooth ride, but has been punctuated by some strange fluctuations.

We can now confirm that a sunspot belching out a solar flare is at least as unnerving to listen to as it is to watch.

Entomologists at Cornell University estimate that East Lawn Cemetery is home to around 5.5 million individual regular miner ...

As a researcher investigating how electric brain stimulation can improve people's powers of recollection, I'm often asked how ...

When people consider what causes high blood pressure, they often think of lifestyle factors, such as eating salty foods, lack ...

A surprising number of creatures across a wide swath of sizes, species, and communication methods all seem to time their ...

For those with the condition misophonia, other kinds of sounds – like slurping, snoring, breathing, and chewing – can draw an ...

Long ago, a time existed before galaxies had drawn themselves together out of the primordial matter that filled the ...