The findings suggest that the fingernail-chalkboard sound triggers an uptick in communication ... in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.

Robert Siegel talks to Michael Oehler, a professor at the University of Media and Communication in Cologne, Germany, about why people find the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard so irritating.

Ever wonder why the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard drives you crazy? It's not just because it triggers bad memories of your grade-school days. Blame your primal instincts: The high ...

Walk by any chalkboard, white board or glass wall on campus ... so-called 'spectral music,' which utilizes the physical properties of sound as a basis for composition. A simple way of incorporating ...

Giving a closer listen to a sound most of us try to avoid – fingernails scraping on a chalkboard – has won Vanderbilt psychologist Randolph Blake an unusual and coveted award, the Ig Nobel Prize.

Just thinking about the unnerving sound of nails on a chalkboard is enough to send shivers down your spine. Scientists have long been puzzled as to why the screeching sound made by fingernails ...

We'll be kindwe won't use any sound effects on today's program. Instead, imagine your eighth-grade classroom, and your childhood nemesis creeping quietly to the chalkboard. He shapes his hand like ...

The act of scraping nails down a chalkboard creates a sound so awful that most people have an instantaneous reaction: A shiver runs up the spine, and they slap their hands over their ears.

So does this mean the book is closed on why we find the sound of nails on a chalkboard so awful? Not by a long shot. The researchers speculate that the amplification of frequencies in the 2kHz ...

Much time has been spent, over the past century, on working out exactly what it is about the sound of fingernails on a blackboard that's so unpleasant. A new study pins the blame on psychology and ...

We'll be kindwe won't use any sound effects on today's program. Instead, imagine your eighth-grade classroom, and your childhood nemesis creeping quietly to the chalkboard. He shapes his hand like ...