music

Scientists from MIT reveal the hidden music in spiderwebs.

Listen to a musicologist blow through the oldest known shell horn.

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.

Ben Henry delves into the still-unanswered questions of where our musical preferences come from and what makes synesthetes tick.

Newton’s rainbow forms the familiar ROYGBIV because he thought the range of visible colors should be analogous to the seven-note musical scale.

At the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, the researcher studies the neurobiology of music perception.

His first love was dance, but Erich Jarvis has long courted another love—understanding how the brain learns vocalization.

 Zebra finches reared by another species learn to sing their foster parents’ song with rhythms characteristic of their genetic background.

An experiment in which people pass each other initially nonrhythmic drumming sequences reveals the human affinity for musical patterns.

Zebra finches dial down dopamine signaling when they hear errors in a song performance.

Researchers investigate the unusual association of musical sounds with tastes or colors through the lens of another perceptual quirk.