Medicine & TechnologyPythagoras was reportedly wrong to believe musical consonance relied on integer ratios to sound appealing no matter what the instrument. Continue reading to learn more.
When a person listens to music, it turns out that the brain is doing two things at the same time in order to make the person appreciate the melody. Read to learn more.
Scientist Unto Laine heard the hissing sound of the northern lights for the first time during a jazz festival in Finland in the 1990s. Continue reading to learn more.
The NASA Chandra X-ray Center has demonstrated a breakthrough by creating music from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Find more about it in this article.
Those who listened to Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 1)" were able to reconstruct the music in their brain. Continue reading to learn how they did it.
A music psychologist has found the formula for the happiest songs in the world, which best fits songs like 'Good Vibrations' by The Beach Boys. Read the article to learn more details.
Music is for animals too, that's the claim of the recent research about an ape species that can follow rhythm and dance into a beat, read on to know more!
Researchers recorded the head movements of rats while they listen to music playing and found that they bop in time to the beat, like humans. Learn more about this discovery in this article.
Artists and neuroscientists have launched an initiative to understand how art and music therapy could help in treating mental health disorders, such as PTSD, depression, and Alzheimer's disease.
One of Mozart's sonata has shown a significant effect on the brain activity of patients with epilepsy and scientists may finally know the underlying mechanism of its therapeutic power.
While most songs today are released on the cloud (i.e. the Internet), British rock band Coldplay streamed their new single "Higher Power" from space - in a video call with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet.