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 ...

Noise first became a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the ‘age of noise’ by dystopian author Aldous Huxley.

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This piece first appeared in the January edition of BikeBiz magazine – not subscribed? Get a free subscription. In recent months, Austrian children’s bike brand woom launched the WOW, a uniquely ...

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 ...

The studio says everything it's put out for 'Mass Effect 5' thus far will lead to what awaits the next chapter in its sci-fi saga. Reading time 2 minutes Every November 7 is N7 Day, a celebration of ...

Evanston, on a supposedly quiet Monday morning, is noisier than you might think. “OK, what’s that guy so angry about?” Fred Armisen asked as a garbage truck barreled down Sherman Avenue. A moment ...

A Cook County jury has convicted a man in the 2021 execution-style murder of 71-year-old Woom Sing Tse in the Chinatown neighborhood in Chicago. Alphonso Joyner, 27, was found guilty of first-degree ...

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 - ...