Musical rhythm has very deep evolutionary roots and is present in some animals
According to a study of the biological foundations of music conducted in a mouse model by Alexandre Celma-Miralles, a researcher ...
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Carl Linnaeus’s household laid the foundation for his scientific work
Credit: Mikael Wallerstedt Without a wife and a well-functioning household, Carl Linnaeus would have had difficulty becoming the prominent scientist ...
Comedy club performances provide insights on how robots, humans connect via humor
Credit: Johanna Carson, OSU College of Engineering CORVALLIS, Ore. - Standup comedian Jon the Robot likes to tell his audiences ...
Beads made of boa bones identified in lesser Antilles
The first identifications of Boa on Martinique, Basse-Terre and La Désirade islands point to the snake's significance for pre-Columbian AmerindiansCredit: ...
Pofatu: A new database for geochemical ‘fingerprints’ of artefacts
The Pofatu Database is the first comprehensive open-access compilation of geochemical analyses and contextual information for archaeological sources and artefacts ...
Neolithic genomes from modern-day Switzerland indicate parallel ancient societies
Genetic analysis of 96 ancient individuals traces the arrival and demographic structure of peoples with Steppe-related ancestry into late Neolithic, ...
Study reveals secret of 18th-century portrait
Credit: Nikolay Simonenko et al./Heritage Science Russian researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Kurnakov Institute of General ...
Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute announces three artists-in-residence
Year-long program embeds award-winning painter, jazz musician and author with scientists studying the mind, the brain and behaviorCredit: Anastasia Muna ...
Is human cooperativity an outcome of competition between cultural groups?
Credit: Carla Handley It may not always seem so, but scientists are convinced that humans are unusually cooperative. Unlike other ...
Canterbury Tales is first major literary work developed as an app
Credit: Photo credit: Dave Stobbe for the University of Saskatchewan. A University of Saskatchewan-led international team has produced the first ...
Can 3D-printing musical instruments produce better sound than traditional instruments?
Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden ...
Atom music lets listeners experience atomic world through sound
By correlating bright lines within the atomic spectra to audible tones, individual atom notes can be identified to create atom ...
Scholars find that irregularly shaped parks reduce mortality risk
Credit: Texas A&M University Some community parks are square, a reflection of the city block where they're located -- but ...
Thousands of medieval manuscripts now online in full color through digitization project
Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks ...