Bob Marley asked him to teach him how to play and how to write. He wrote music for Dr. No. He worked with Jimmy Cliff, Millie ...

Investigate how humans worldwide share fundamental rhythmic preferences in music, influenced by diverse cultural backgrounds.

Why do animals search for food at specific times of the day? In a study published in Current Biology, a research group led by Prof. Li Yan from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...

Sometime in the early 1950s, songwriter and choral conductor Jester Hairston was asked to provide a new Christmas carol for a concert by Walter Schumann’s Hollywood Choir. Hairston thought back to a ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

Increased daytime sleepiness could raise the risk of dementia among women in their eighties, neurologists have warned. A study found that female octogenarians who experience increased daytime ...

An Australian-led study of over 10,000 older adults links regular music listening and instrument playing to significantly lower dementia and cognitive decline rates. At the opening of the UN General ...