At first glance, building a drum machine that uses the heartbeats of children with congenital heart disease might be considered very poor taste. But audiovisual artist Love Hultén and Teenage ...

Lemurs can sing with a sense of rhythm similar to humans, according to a study published Monday by Current Biology. Researchers studied 636 recordings of vocalizations from 39 adult indris, a type of ...

As 'visual recognition memory' emerges in visual cortex, one circuit of inhibitory neurons supplants another and slower neural oscillations prevail, according to a new study. To focus on what's new, ...

Different chimp troops drum with "distinct" rhythms, reveals new research. The primates use regular spacing between beats, according to the study. The "exciting" findings suggest that the ability to ...

These numbers tell the story of the Los Angeles wildfires, one year later CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, who sold US secrets to the Soviets, dies in prison at 84 Pamela Smart seeks to overturn conviction ...

In the design of robots built to emulate dogs, fish or birds, incorporating different rhythms into their standard cruising movements can make their normal operations more efficient. And those optimal ...

Most people can dance and tap their feet to the beat, but a few recent research studies have shown that some people are better at keeping a rhythm than others. One group of researchers looked at ...

President Obama's biggest speeches have a musicality to them. That's not an accident. His speechwriters obsess over rhythm and cadence. A gentle rhythm can calm us. A thumping beat can get our bodies ...

Composers of dance music often get odd requests, but this one was a doozy. So Benford, a world and dance music specialist from Rutgers University, wrote a score that alternated measures of eight and ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. Scientists suspect this ancient ...