News tagged with wolfgang amadeus mozart

Darwin's travels may have led to illness, death

(AP) -- The very travels that inspired Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and shaped modern biology may have led to one of the illnesses that plagued the British naturalist for decades and ultimately led ...

Biology / Other

created May 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 7

A sonata a day keeps the doctor away

The music they listen to doesn't have any lyrics that tell them to grow, but new research from Tel Aviv University finds that premature babies who are exposed to music by 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gain ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Britain's Royal Society puts rare scientific manuscripts online

Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain's Royal Society said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

What killed Mozart? Study suggests strep infection

(AP) -- For more than two centuries, the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has endured - as has the speculation about what led to his sudden death at age 35 on Dec. 5, 1791.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1