A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance ...

A new study reveals how regularly listening to music may help keep ageing brains sharp and, in turn, to significantly lower dementia risk and to reduce cognitive decline. The study, from Monash ...

Making music is a mental workout. The brain must simultaneously co-ordinate sound and vision, as well as fine motor control, focus and imagination. Over time this stretches the brain like a muscle.

A new study that suggests listening to or playing music could slash the risk of dementia might have you singing a new tune. Adults over 70 who regularly listen to music were nearly 40% less likely to ...

Hellman’s is finally answering the question on everyone’s minds: Is mayonnaise an instrument? The question was infamously ...

Hannah Docter-Loeb is a science journalist in Amsterdam. As the Sugababes take the stage a few metres away, Eefje Schrauwen stands outside her assigned shipping container. There are other units on ...

We all know that listening to a favorite playlist can turn a bad day around, but new science suggests that the benefits of music might go far deeper than just a temporary mood boost. A fascinating ...

A new study says the right playlist could be the cure, with two kinds of music shown to cut motion sickness symptoms by more than half.

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Genes affect different aspects of music enjoyment — from the emotional reactions that compositions evoke to the social connection music can foster. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...