A new study finds the sounds and sights of nature are associated with significant positive effects on mental health compared to loud, urban environments. The study, by North Carolina State University ...

When we hear certain sounds, our brains often pair them with specific shapes. For example, most people will associate a sharp-sounding word with a jagged, pointed shape, while a soft, rolling word is ...

Why does “bouba” sound round and “kiki” sound spiky? This intuition that ties certain sounds to shapes is oddly reliable all over the world. For at least a century scientists have considered this ...

In his pioneering work in 1947, Wolfgang Kölher described the spontaneous tendency of adult humans to associate a round shape with the nonword “Maluma” and a spiky shape with the nonword “Takete” (1).

When Wooting announced the upcoming Wooting 60HE v2 Hall effect gaming keyboard, there was a lot of excitement about new features like 8 kHz polling, a friction fit gasket mount, split space bar ...

Meditation is widely praised for its mental health benefits, but new research shows that it can also produce unexpected side effects for some people—from anxiety and dissociation to functional ...

In a world of information overload, it can feel soothing to stick your head in the sand. Don’t want to hear what the doctor might say? It’s easy not to make a follow-up appointment. Did a favorite ...

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, ...

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 ...

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In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

Sound effects are some of the most underappreciated aspects of cinema. Indeed, the visual nature of film as a medium often ensures that sound is taken for granted, particularly when it comes to ...