Posts Tagged ‘music’
Medical sensor powered by rap music?
PURDUE (US) — The driving bass rhythm of rap can be used to power a new miniature medical sensor designed to be implanted in the body. Continue…
Friday, January 27, 2012 16:14 - 1 Comment
Top Stories - Jun 13, 2011 10:52 - 0 Comments
Teen brains predict song popularity
EMORY (US) — The brain activity of teens, recorded while they are listening to new songs, may help predict a tune’s popularity. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 18, 2011 12:12 - 0 Comments
Musicians have better hearing late in life
NORTHWESTERN (US) — Older adults with musical training appear to hear and remember sounds better than non-musicians of the same age. (more…)
Top Stories - Apr 26, 2011 12:10 - 1 Comment
Aging musicians have sharp brains
EMORY (US) — Playing a musical instrument throughout life may help fight cognitive decline as we age. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 15, 2011 14:36 - 15 Comments
Timing key to music’s emotional hold
MCGILL (CAN) — How one piano performance makes the listener swell with feeling, while another makes him look around for the nearest exit, all comes down to the physics of the instrument. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jul 23, 2010 12:04 - 1 Comment
Music lessons give kids’ brains a workout
NORTHWESTERN (US)—Children who take part in musical training have an advantage in learning that spills over to skills that include language, speech, memory, attention, and even vocal emotion. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jun 23, 2010 11:47 - 0 Comments
Physicists record Sun’s good vibrations
U. SHEFFIELD (UK)—Solar physicists have recorded the musical sounds created by longitudinal vibrations within the Sun’s atmosphere—and revealed that the sounds are caused by the movement of giant magnetic loops in the solar corona. (more…)
Science & Technology - Mar 5, 2010 11:14 - 2 Comments
Hey, Sun, this is your song
U. MICHIGAN (US)—Scientists know what solar winds look like. Now researchers have come up with a musical interpretation of what the winds might sound like, too. (more…)
Science & Technology - Dec 3, 2009 12:21 - 0 Comments
Human speech is music to our ears
DUKE (US)—Humans may love music, biologically speaking, because it mimics the sounds of our own voices. Neuroscientists say the use of 12 tone intervals in the music of many human cultures is rooted in the physics of how our vocal anatomy produces speech and conveys emotion. (more…)
Society & Culture - Mar 19, 2009 20:18 - 1 Comment
Cell phones at center of global music-making
The Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra
