Music

A mathematician and a musician collaborated to turn a quantum research paper into a jazz performance

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut

Indris’ dramatic family “songs” show repeatable timing patterns

It's Friday. We deserve to have some fun, right? Let's have some music!

Quadcopters appear to be a relatively benign tool to study the behavior and numbers of wetland birds. Christopher Intagliata reports

I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.

I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.

It's said that a person can have good taste in music but what about the taste of music? What would it taste like? Experimental psychologist Charles Spence and researchers at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford may be able to provide some insight.

A documentary captures people with dementia reconnecting to emotions and lost memories through music

Over the long term, limiting screen time brings substantial benefits

Better detection by the brain could explain why low-pitched notes carry the beat across musical cultures