Chimpanzees like to listen to the different rhythms of music from Africa and India, but prefer silence to music from the West, according to new research in the Journal of Experimental Psychology. “We used cultural music from Africa, India and Japan to pinpoint specific acoustic properties,” said study co-author Frans de Waal, of Emory University. […]
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Direct Observations Of Circadian Processes Reveal New Layers Of Complexity
Our biological timekeeper – known as the circadian clock – runs to a 24-hour rhythm that regulates metabolism, cell division, and hormone production, as well as our wake-sleep cycle. Until now, scientists believed they had a fairly good grasp of how the circadian clock functioned, but a new study, published in Science, looks set to […]