There are a lot of scary science stories that go around the Internet. It's easy for a single paper to get spun up into a ...

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This Halloween, horror fans should check out scary sci-fi movies like Alien: Romulus, The Thing, and Godzilla Minus One.

In recent years, we've become painfully aware that microplastics are everywhere—in our oceans, food, and even the air we breathe. But now, scientists have made a fascinating and unsettling discovery: ...

What makes movies in the horror genre scary is often a polarizing discussion, but one scientific experiment tried to narrow ...

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Clinical psychiatrist at Wayne State University and operations manager at Scarefest Scream Park weigh in on the science of ...