If the mere thought of fingernails scraping along a blackboard makes you cringe, blame your amygdala. Scientists have discovered that this primitive almond-shaped brain region is behind our aversion ...

Listening to the noise of fingernails down a blackboard is near-intolerable for many people. Now researchers have analysed why it is we find the sound so awful. The researchers, from Cologne and ...

Just imaging the scratchy and screechy sound made by fingernails running down a blackboard is annoying. Now scientists have found the reason why it has such effect. Just imaging the scratchy and ...

The ickiest, most horrible, most awful sound in all of creation? Vomiting. That's the verdict from a university's online survey that reportedly attracted more than 1.1 million votes. Throwing up is ...