Identifying behavioral and physiological responses to rewarding stimuli is essential for understanding positive emotional states in animals and for investigating their neural basis. Ultrasonic vocaliz...

Scientific Reports - Increased pain resilience among heavy metal music festival attendees

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Most birds migrate over Chicago at night. A new network of acoustic monitors is tracking their movements by listening for what can't be seen.

Flexible, abstract rhythm perception underpins human music, dance, and speech, but thus far, it has only been demonstrated in a few birds and mammals. In this work, we show that bumble bees also form ...

Uno studio su PNAS (febbraio 2026) mostra che, durante il collasso del polimero PNIPAM, l’acqua forma “ponti” tra segmenti della catena e stabilizza il globulo. Meccanismo, metodo e implicazioni per m...

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM), a thermoresponsive homopolymer, is a well-established model for investigating coil-to-globule transitions. He...

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Abstract. This article investigates questions and concerns about the embedding of cultural and individual programmer biases into music programming languages (MPLs) and music software. A key contention...

Synchronizing movements to music is a hallmark of human culture, but its evolutionary and neurobiological origins remain unknown. This ability requires (i) extracting a steady rhythmic pulse, or beat,...

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Otophysans, known for their enhanced hearing enabled by the complex Weberian apparatus, comprise two-thirds of extant freshwater fish species. Previously, they were thought to have originated in fresh...

Sound waves are being increasingly channelled to probe nature, with significant potential applications.

SonicBoom lets robots "feel" their way through farms using sound. Could this be the key to affordable and efficient harvesting?

Scientific Reports - Bonobos tend to behave optimistically after hearing laughter

Prosody, the musical facet of speech, is pivotal in human communication, and its structure and meaning remain subjects of ongoing research. In this...

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2025 — In a fun experiment, Max Koch, a researcher at the University of Göttingen in Germany — who also happens to be passionate […]

Delivering audible content to a targeted listener without disturbing others is paramount in audio engineering. However, achieving this goal has lon...

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A Göttingen research team has discovered the molecular “spring” that opens ion channels in the auditory sensory cells in the ear.

A new method for functionalizing glass using ultrasonication of aryl diazonium salts. Aryl radicals generated by ultrasounds react with glass, forming a stable, covalently bonded organic film. The fu....

Aminoglycosides (AGs) are highly potent, broad-spectrum antibiotics frequently used as first-line treatments for multiple life-threatening infectio...

Recent advancements have enabled quantum control and measurement of mechanical resonators. Here the authors demonstrate quantum entanglement between two mechanical resonators on separate substrates by...

Languagelike patterns in whale songs could make them easier for whales to learn

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

The natural vibrational frequencies of biological particles such as viruses and bacteria encode critical information about their mechanical and bio...

Rhythm is an important component of human language and music production. Rhythms such as isochrony (intervals spaced equally in time) are also present in vocalizations of certain non-human species, in...

The night sky teems with migrating songbirds, aloft in their millions following routes etched in evolutionary time.

For some, the brain is a quiet place.

Scientific Reports - Impact of musical rhythm on blood, physiological and welfare parameters in stabled horses

Microsystems & Nanoengineering - Coupling the thermal acoustic modes of a bubble to an optomechanical sensor

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We do citizen science to learn how the human mind creates and perceives music.

High-frequency tactile vibration signals captured by Pacinian corpuscles are routed to the lateral cortex of the inferior colliculus (LCIC), where they converge with auditory inputs and mediate behavioral responses.