Pop music has become louder, less original: study finds
Your mother was right: Pop music has become louder and less original over the years.
Jul 26, 2012
4.9 / 5 (14)
8
Jul 26, 2012
4.9 / 5 (14)
8
Tesla coils take on Lady Gaga
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an amazing display of lights and sounds, the Open Spark Project and the Tesla Orchestra, formed from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, have taken Tesla coils to a whole new level. Their new Tesla Orch ...
May 27, 2011
4.6 / 5 (11)
16
|
Love ballad leaves women more open to a date
If you're having trouble getting a date, French researchers suggest that picking the right soundtrack could improve the odds. Women were more prepared to give their number to an 'average' young man after listening to romantic ...
Jun 18, 2010
4.8 / 5 (10)
7
|
Blue whales singing with deeper voices
(PhysOrg.com) -- Blue whales, the largest animals on earth, are singing with deeper voices every year, but scientists are unsure of the reason.
Dec 08, 2009
4.4 / 5 (9)
8
Finches use their own form of grammar in their tweets
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a recent study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Kyoto in Japan have discovered that the tweets of Bengalese finches follow a set of grammatical patter ...
Jun 28, 2011
4.8 / 5 (8)
8
|
Critically endangered whales sing like birds; new recordings hint at rebound (w/ audio)
(Phys.org) -- When a University of Washington researcher listened to the audio picked up by a recording device that spent a year in the icy waters off the east coast of Greenland, she was stunned at what she ...
Jul 31, 2012
5 / 5 (6)
0
|
Biologists find birdsong of isolates reverts to norm over several generations (w/Audio)
In an experiment that points to a role for genetics in the development of culture, biologists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that zebra finches raised in isolation ...
May 03, 2009
4.8 / 5 (6)
1
MicroRNAs in the songbird brain respond to new songs (w/ video)
Whenever it hears an unfamiliar song from a bird of the same species, a zebra finch stops chirping, hopping and grooming. It listens attentively for minutes at a time, occasionally cocking its head but otherwise ...
Jun 30, 2011
5 / 5 (5)
2
|
Snafu as China space launch set to US patriotic song
It was supposed to be a patriotic tribute to China's technological prowess. Instead, a video showing the launch of China's first space station module inadvertently glorified the country's biggest rival.
Sep 30, 2011
5 / 5 (5)
55
'Birds of a feather' may need rewritten
(PhysOrg.com) -- The old proverb, "Birds of a feather flock together," might be in need of a rewrite, according to University of Alberta findings about chickadees. Researchers have divided chickadees into two personality ...
Sep 28, 2010
4.8 / 5 (5)
0
|
Blue whales align the pitch of their songs with extreme accuracy, study finds
Blue whales are able to synchronize the pitch of their calls with an extremely high level of accuracy, and a very slim margin of error from call to call, according to a new study of the blue whale population ...
Aug 02, 2010
4.6 / 5 (5)
2
|
Can science predict a hit song?
Most people remember listening to the official UK top 40 singles chart and watching the countdown on Top of the Pops, but can science work out which songs are more likely to 'make it' in the chart? New research has looked ...
Dec 17, 2011
4.6 / 5 (5)
4
|
Birds and mammals share a common brain circuit for learning
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bird song learning is a model system for studying the general principles of learning, but attempts to draw parallels between learning in birds and mammals have been difficult because of anatomical ...
May 18, 2010
5 / 5 (4)
0
|
Beatles' songs are finally available on iTunes (Update 2)
(AP) -- Nearly 50 years after the Beatles took television by storm, the Fab Four's songs became available on iTunes on Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible new outbreak of Beatlemania - this one online.
Nov 16, 2010
2.7 / 5 (7)
1
Humpback whale songs spread eastward like the latest pop tune
Humpback whales have their own version of the hit single, according to a study reported online on April 14th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. At any given time within a population, male humpba ...
Apr 14, 2011
4.8 / 5 (4)
0
|
