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.