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.

Today, the incomparable Minneapolis funk deity known as Prince turns 57. While he's off celebrating on a purple motorcycle under a cherry moon, we're celebrating by ranking his best mid-song screams, ...

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 ...

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 ...

I scream, you scream, we all scream. For ice cream, sure, but also for fear, excitement, sexual pleasure, pain, anger, and—if online commenters are to be believed—memes 😱. Screaming is exhibited by ...