Newborn brains respond strongly to rhythm changes in music, suggesting that timing expectations develop earlier than melody perception.

In some cities, designers have turned staircases into instruments to make people choose steps over lifts and escalators. One ...

Music journalist Amit Gurbaxani and TuneCore South Asia head Akhila Shankar on the The Indian Music Charts Podcast say the prophecy is finally brushing up ...

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...

A new study finds that non-musicians' brains are just as good as professionals' at integrating musical context and predicting melodies.

Mumbai Coastal Road introduces India’s first musical stretch, playing Jai Ho at 60 kmph from Nariman Point to Worli, as part ...

This groundbreaking piece of software is a fun, playful and accessible way for anybody to generate unexpected chords, melodies and arpeggios with nothing more than a humble mouse ...

A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition suggests that people with a unique perceptual trait called ...

Forwards? Backwards? Upside down? All three at once? From Machaut to Pärt, Ensemble 360 considers the relationship between ...

The city of Sheffield has a rich musical history, having given the world the likes of The Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and Arctic Monkeys, but the latest musical sensation to come out of Britain's ...

At 8:30 a.m. on a Monday, the halls at Conservatory Lab Charter School‘s upper school are preternaturally quiet, with just the low hum of the overhead lights as your soundtrack. But the signs that ...