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Sports Hooliganism Comes Down to a Fear of Death
Fan riots are sparked by terrible insights that the Grim Reaper is winning.
The Unique Neurology of the Sports Fan’s Brain
Why we get off on the game—and are better off for it.
The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber
Alex Honnold doesn’t experience fear like the rest of us.
The Man Who Designed Ghost Armies and Opera Houses
The storied career of the centenarian and acoustician, Leo Beranek.
The Case For Leaving City Rats Alone
A Vancouver rat study is showing us how pest control can backfire.
Noise Is a Drug and New York Is Full of Addicts
We may complain about a defining feature of the city, but we also feed off it.
This Physics Pioneer Walked Away from It All
Why Fotini Markopoulou traded quantum gravity for industrial design.
Why the Songbird’s Serenade Is Going Off Key
Urban din is forcing animal mating calls to be either unsexy or unheard.
The Hidden Science of the Missing Gravitational Waves
A relatively unknown experiment is already drawing conclusions from the sound of silence.
