Sociologist Margee Kerr takes a tour of a giant “scream park” to break down the science behind its scares. She explains the benefits of fear and what may be behind our fear of clowns.

New research published in Science identifies the brain biochemistry and neural circuitry that cause generalized fear experiences. Here, neurons are shown in cyan and retrograde tracers shown in ...

Fear and anxiety took hold ... me since I didn’t make the recommendation and my saying ‘there was no science behind it’ meant ...

Trypophobia is the fear of clusters of small circular holes ... and more scientists are beginning to investigate what might be behind it. In a new study, psychologists at the University of Kent ...