Search results for choir

Ecology Feb 22, 2024

Birds know no borders. Nor do scientists

Over centuries, wetlands all over the world have had to give way to "more useful" types of land—seen from man's perspective.

Social Sciences Feb 16, 2024

Music education, support networks, and continuity are key factors regulating adolescents' arts participation, says study

How do young people find their way to music-making? Researchers Anna Kuoppamäki from the University of the Arts Helsinki and Fanny Vilmilä from the Finnish Youth Research Network identified factors that had a significant ...

Social Sciences Nov 29, 2023

Hallelujah, it's school concert season: Music researcher explains why these performances are so important

Who could have imagined how quickly we would return to pre-COVID routines?

Social Sciences Nov 10, 2023

Boys choir found to compete sexually for female audiences through more energetic singing

Research led by Western Sydney University, Australia, has found that boys singing in a choir engage in simultaneous group cohesion and sexually motivated competition exhibited through voice modulation in the presence of a ...

Earth Sciences Oct 19, 2023

Churches could be key for quake survival, expert says

Text messages began to circulate about five minutes after an earthquake warning sounded for celebrants at St. James' Episcopal Church in South Pasadena on Sunday morning.

Environment Sep 21, 2023

Viewpoint: German police have long collaborated with energy giant RWE to enforce ecological catastrophe

In early 2023, the German village of Lützerath was the site of violent clashes between thousands of protesters and police who wanted to clear the village so it could be swallowed up by Garzweiler II, a huge opencast coal ...

Astronomy Jun 28, 2023

Clamor of gravitational waves from universe's merging supermassive black holes 'heard' for first time

Following 15 years of data collection in a galaxy-sized experiment, scientists have "heard" the perpetual chorus of gravitational waves rippling through our universe for the first time—and it's louder than expected.

Social Sciences Jun 6, 2023

Retirement reinvented: How to find fulfilment later in life

Retirement can feel like a strange time for many people. Gone is the routine of work, your time is your own—in theory. How to stop chores from taking over can become a tricky balance. Some people retreat and return to work. ...

Materials Science Mar 26, 2023

What do the elements sound like?

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren't the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, using a technique called ...

Quantum Physics Dec 7, 2022

Quantum processor reveals bound states of photons hold strong even in the midst of chaos

Researchers have used a quantum processor to make microwave photons uncharacteristically sticky. They coaxed them to clump together into bound states, then found that these photon clusters survived in a regime where they ...

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