Pop music boosts solar cell efficiency
The acoustic vibrations from pop and rock music can improve the performance of solar cells by as much as 40…
Choir’s hearts beat as one
Swedish researchers studying how music affects the human body have found that when people sing in a choir their heartbeats…
Appreciation of musical harmony is nurture, not nature, say Aussie scientists
Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learnt and not based on natural ability, say researchers at…
Smartphone powered robotic DJ set for party duties
The annoying guy at parties who keeps changing the music may be facing redundancy, thanks to a new robot DJ…
MRI scans predict pop music success
An Emory University experiment originally designed to see how peer pressure affects teenagers has also been found to accurately predict…
Study identifies key aspects of music that evoke emotions in brain
Using fMRI neuroimaging, Florida Atlantic University scientists have identified key aspects of musical performance that cause emotion-related brain activity, and…
Human music and speech biologically linked
The musical scales that are most commonly used by composers are those that come closest to mimicking the physics of…
Monkey music a hit
Music is one of the surest ways to influence human emotion, but non-human primates scarcely respond to our music, and…
Guitarists’ brains synchronized
When guitarists play along together it isn’t just their instruments that are in time – their brain waves are too,…
Musicians’ brains optimized to identify emotion
In research that may lead to new therapies for children with autism and Asperger’s syndrome, researchers from Northwestern University have…
This Is Your Brain On Jazz
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), two scientists have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas…
Proteins Play The Piano
Hoping to more easily identify patterns in protein sequences, UCLA molecular biologists have turned the sequences into original compositions of…