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.

What’s in a scream? The vocalisations people identify as screams share certain sound qualities – a kind of acoustic DNA that tells a listener’s ear that what they’re hearing is a scream, even if it ...

Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy with a small team: a fully explorable ...

Mountain lions are known by many names: panthers, pumas, cougars, and catamounts, for example. However, there is one moniker that perfectly describes one of their more unusual characteristics: the ...