Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

NASA has transformed data from distant stars into orchestral music. Using star vibrations and light variations, scientists ...

Through studying how sound travels in soap foams, French researchers have devised an intriguing method to closely observe the mechanisms at play when a soap ...

The matte-black circuit board that holds Tristan Perich’s Noise Patterns has a few things in common with your average smartphone. It’s small and sleek enough to fit into your pocket, and it comes with ...

Music seems to be a social glue. Think of how love songs enhance our romantic feelings, how marching bands intensify our affinity for the home team, or how huge rock concerts make us feel one with a ...

The surveys look at what they call Wave 1, following the week of March 25 through 29, and Wave 2, following the week of April 7 through 11. They’re extensive, and while I’m not going to go through ...

Among Nashville's many busy singer-songwriters, none may currently be going through as prodigious a process of making and releasing music as Kelsea Ballerini. The Grammy nominee and Country Music ...

Music apps for the iPhone fall into a few distinct categories. Air, for example, is a freeform tool for creating random sounds, while JR Hexatone Pro is an advanced loop creator. PatternMusic, from ...

Hands of a child learning about patterns of size and color with colorful wooden blocks. Source: myboys/Shutterstock Part of what makes us human is the need for our brains to search for meaning. Good ...