Scientists and Doctors Sing about ‘Superbugs’ in Penicillin Musical
The musical Lifeline tells the story of Sir Alexander Fleming’s discovery of antibiotics, as these revolutionary drugs continue to lose their efficacy
How Your Brain Tells Speech and Music Apart
Simple cues help people to distinguish song from the spoken word
The Olympics Breaking Fiasco Undermined Serious Hip-Hop Artists and Scholars
The “Raygun” Olympics fiasco points to how hip-hop scholarship is at risk of being colonized and undermined in academia
Brain Scans of Jazz Musicians Reveal How to Reach a Creative ‘Flow State’
Both expertise and the ability to release one’s focus can help people enter a state of effortless attention
New Folk Song Analysis Finds Similarities around the World
Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved
Song Lyrics Really Are Getting Simpler and More Repetitive, Study Finds
An assessment of hundreds of thousands of songs confirms that choruses and hooks have taken over—but simpler isn’t necessarily worse
Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach’s Music
Physicists found that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach contains mathematical patterns that help convey information
Why Do Christmas Songs Get Stuck in Your Head So Easily?
If holiday music seems designed in a lab to get stuck on repeat inside your head for all of December, well, it kind of is
Male Songbirds Need Daily Vocal Practice to Woo Females
Birds might sing in the morning because they need a vocal workout
How Quantum Math Theory Turned into a Jazz Concert
A mathematician and a musician collaborated to turn a quantum research paper into a jazz performance
What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain
Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.
This New Album Makes Beautiful Music out of Gravity, the Elements and Photosynthesis
The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut