This post was updated April 24 at 9:33 p.m. The musical climate at UCLA is breaking new ground. The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music will hold an event called “Climate Notes” at 4 p.m. Sunday in ...

One of the strangest viral music phenoms of the year is the Quebecois duo Angine de Poitrine. In February a 27-minute-long ...

Hannah Docter-Loeb is a science journalist in Amsterdam. As the Sugababes take the stage a few metres away, Eefje Schrauwen stands outside her assigned shipping container. There are other units on ...

CHICO — When I thought about the new Music Makers program at Gateway Science Museum, I was reminded of that line from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”: “We are the music makers and we are the ...

Numerous creatives and professors gathered at the Michigan State University Museum on March 18 for the collaborative panel "Conversation: Music, Science and Video Games." The event is part of the Arts ...

Learning a musical instrument later in life may help keep the brain younger for longer. In a four-year study, older adults ...

For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes. Using a ...

A new study reveals how regularly listening to music may help keep ageing brains sharp and, in turn, to significantly lower dementia risk and to reduce cognitive decline. The study, from Monash ...

The fictional band Spinal Tap could make their instruments louder with the help of amplifiers that went up to 11. Lesser musicians must find other ways to pump up the volume. One well-established ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Nurse Rod Salaysay works with all kinds of instruments in the hospital: a thermometer, a stethoscope and sometimes ...

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