Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

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You’ve got a legitimate reason to flinch when you’re peeling off a roll of Scotch tape. That annoying screech is actually tiny cracks traveling at supersonic speeds. An international team of ...

A new experiment has uncovered the mechanism responsible for the screeching sound made by peeling sticky tape. Using a combination of ultrafast imaging and synchronized acoustic recordings, Sigurdur ...

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A study has revealed the source of the squealing noise heard when removing adhesive tape, something that has remained a mystery for decades. The tape does not peel off smoothly and evenly, but instead ...

Experiments have uncovered the physical mechanism responsible for the screeching sound that adhesive tape makes when peeled from a roll 1. Many of us will be familiar with the unpleasant squeal of ...

With Alien: Romulus out this week, we're resurfacing this op-ed which looks at how the film's director, Fede Álvarez, could be on the verge of getting the Alien franchise back on track. The Alien ...

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Bring up aliens and a lot of people will scoff. But not everyone is laughing. Around the turn of the century, 3.8 million people banded together in a real-time search for aliens — with screensavers.

The world is full of sounds, and sound can affect us greatly. Some sounds are pleasant, like the laughter of a small child or a babbling brook in a peaceful forest. Other sounds are unpleasant, like ...

Have you even been wrapping a present or getting crafty and heard the terrible screech of the tape you're using? Well scientists have now discovered WHY it makes that horrid noise, after decades of ...