Unusually Wired: Human Brains are Attuned to Appreciate Musical Pitch

A love of music and science led the marine biologist to discover that whales sing songs, a discovery that he’s since used to convince the world the animals are worth saving.

Hear the muted symphony that one researcher thinks might be a close approximation to how macaques perceive the performance.

The auditory cortices of humans and rhesus monkeys respond very differently to harmonic tones.

A group of around 300 whales produced 184 distinct songs over just a few years, according to a new study.

A whole-genome analysis of people who experience color when they listen to sounds points to a handful of genes involved in neural development.

Researchers create a program that can use fMRI data to identify which musical pieces are in participants' heads.  

The artist discusses music as a means to get kids excited about science, and the inspiration he took from astrophysics and polar bears.

At 100 sites around North America, field recorders are set to record natures’ response to the blotting out of the sun on Monday.