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 ...

Tales of the amazing capabilities of bats, spiders, and snakes. Plus, a guided tour of some of the world’s spookiest lakes.

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

Climate change and habitat loss threaten the newly named trapdoor spider. Scientists from the, Davis, have identified a previously unknown trapdoor spider species lurking in the coastal sand dunes of ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Halloween is this week and while we often think of treats like costumes and candy, another part of the holiday includes tricks including, haunted houses, scary movies, black cats, ...

Everyone knows someone — or maybe is that person — who shuts their eyes tight during the scary parts of a horror film and forces their friend to go first in the haunted house. Others avoid scary ...

Like haunted houses? Scientists do! That’s because they’re an excellent place to study how humans respond to – and even ...

Haunted houses. Skydiving. Scary movies. Why do these horrifying things make some people delighted, and others, well, horrified? In the book, Carter — a self-proclaimed lover of calm — gets into the ...

For many people, fall is the spooky season. Daylight wanes as nights become longer, a chill touches the air, and trees lose their leaves and take on a skeletal silhouette. If that alone doesn’t make ...

Why do we slow down for car crashes or binge true crime? Psychologist Coltan Scrivner says our fascination with fear isn’t just dark — it’s adaptive.

The above video shows the top local headlines for the morning of October 28, 2025. LUBBOCK, Texas — The Science Spectrum is ...