Music is both a brain and a body experience—illness can impair this experience, while music can be a means to treat illness.

Sleigh bells have long acted as convenient shorthand for composers to tell their listeners that this piece belongs to the ...

Some deserts around the world produce a natural phenomenon called "booming dunes," where dry sand grains rub and vibrate to ...

Scientists from Charles Darwin onward have speculated that, for our early ancestors, music predated—and possibly formed the ...

Welcome back to Prog 's Christmas Tracks Of The Week. A slight deviation this week, as Christmas is only a week away, and the world seems to be slowly moving into holiday mode, and, well, basically, ...

The difference between retirees who thrive and those who fade isn't about money or health, it's about what they choose to do ...

There's something beautifully humbling about sucking at something new when you've spent years being competent at everything ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

Born from punk’s flickering embers, goth has always been more than a soundtrack for the suntan-averse. In the late 70s and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a musical instrument so old that it predates most forms of human culture. Crafted from bone and shaped to produce eerie, haunting tones, it offers a rare glimpse into the ...

Oscars Best Sound predictions include "F1," "Frankenstein," "Sinners," "One Battle After Another" and "Wicked: For Good." ...