Math and science are a scream for the 12 students in the course “Roller Coasters: Theory, Design, and Properties,” at Bates College, in Lewiston, Me. The students study roller-coaster design to learn ...

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An insert of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.” Credit: National Gallery of Norway, via Wikimedia Commons. When you hear a scream, you automatically perk up. It catches your attention. But scientists are ...

Its fear-splitting screech reverberates throughout space and time. Swiss and Norwegian neuroscientists have discovered that the ancient Aztec death whistle — often credited with emitting the scariest ...

New insight into paint preservation could help “The Scream” show its face in public again. Edvard Munch’s 1910 version of this iconic artwork has rarely been displayed since 2006 because the ...

Researchers have discovered the main cause of deterioration in one of the world's most prized artworks: Edvard Munch's "The Scream." By conducting X-ray probes of flakes of paint from the 1910 ...

Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.

Rembrandt may have painted with the aid of optics and the Mona Lisa may have had high cholesterol levels, but we can finally put at least one longstanding mystery that has apparently plagued art ...

Could Edvard Munch's "The Scream" have been inspired by a rare cloud formation? Scientists at the European Geosciences Union annual meeting this month in Vienna think so. A new hypothesis holds that ...