Music

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

Birds might sing in the morning because they need a vocal workout

A mathematician and a musician collaborated to turn a quantum research paper into a jazz performance

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut

Indris’ dramatic family “songs” show repeatable timing patterns

It's Friday. We deserve to have some fun, right? Let's have some music!

Sure, I was familiar with the graphic—and I’m not alone. Drop this image (right) on someone’s desk and chances are they’ll reflexively blurt, “Joy Division.” The band’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures album cover leaned entirely on a small mysterious data display, printed in white on black.

Quadcopters appear to be a relatively benign tool to study the behavior and numbers of wetland birds. Christopher Intagliata reports

I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.

I met my first savant 52 years ago and have been intrigued with that remarkable condition ever since. One of the most striking and consistent things in the many savants I have seen is that that they clearly know things they never learned.

It's said that a person can have good taste in music but what about the taste of music? What would it taste like? Experimental psychologist Charles Spence and researchers at the Crossmodal Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford may be able to provide some insight.