Joint noises are common and often misunderstood. A physiotherapist explains why they happen and what they do, and do not, ...

Darth Vader never said, “Luke I am your father.” So why do we all think he did? Here’s the science behind this strange phenomenon—and how AI is poised to send it into overdrive. Cape Town street art ...

Quietly unfolding as a folk-horror of German history, the stories in the film are told from the peripheries and through the ...

Lake effect snow. It's a part of what makes western New York winters feel like a wintry wonderland that requires daily shoveling. Utica, along with Rochester, Buffalo and other communities along the ...

Live concerts, fireworks and roaring stadium crowds can reach dangerously high volumes — loud enough to cause permanent hearing loss. But what was the loudest sound ever recorded on Earth? The answer ...

Apparently any place looks better if you just say it’s Japan. The idea being that the “Japan effect” is so strong, just the location tag can filter how we perceive an ordinary street or an average ...

After a weekend that had the first snowfall for much of Wisconsin, parts of Racine and Kenosha counties along Lake Michigan measured more than a foot of snow Nov. 10. It's a drastic difference from ...

I'm a sucker for epic sagas and good sci-fi, and in the lead-up to this year's N7 Day, I realized we don't see that combination very often in video games anymore. Oh sure, we've got games inspired by ...

This film uses archival clips and documents to examine the way climate change evolved from nonpartisan topic to divisive issue. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

Comedian Fred Armisen has just put out a new album. It is called "100 Sound Effects" - and that's exactly what it is. Over the years, fans of Armisen's comedy have come to expect the unexpected - ...

Not long ago, Fred Armisen was reminiscing about the sound-effect LPs he used to stock at the Chicago record store where he worked in the Nineties. These vinyl platters contained all kinds of sounds, ...

Editor's note: Read the latest information on the Atlantic Hurricane forecast for Thursday, Sept. 25. The dance between developing storms in the Atlantic could soon evolve into one of meteorology's ...