Science

While it is known that auditory characteristics like loudness and tempo are associated with the physical movements of musicians, more subtle features, like timbre (also known as the “tone color” or tonal quality), are not as well understood.

Purdue University, known as the “cradle of astronauts,” will send a six-person crew to suborbital space with Virgin Galactic in 2027.

Taylor Swift is one of the biggest pop singers in history, influencing millions of fans with her music. Thanks to years of recorded interviews, she is also influencing how we understand the ways that people adopt accents and regional dialects.

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of language, even if they do not have other auditory, intellectual or neurological problems, and are only affected in this aspect of language.…

For Black boys living in the poorest neighborhoods, positive school experiences showed no significant effect on depressive symptoms, according to a Rutgers study.

The creation of an industry-funded parental leave scheme is among the recommendations from the first comprehensive Australian study into boosting the retention of women in construction.

Virtual reality has been fashionable for a while now. So perhaps it was only a matter of time before fashion became virtual.

In times of violent conflict, how do you get your news: television broadcasts and newspapers, or social media? The answer, according to new research from Binghamton University Political Science Professor Seden Akcinaroglu, may depend on how you view the effectiveness…

In this quiz, you’ll match iconic extraterrestrial characters to the TV shows and films that made them famous.

As the name suggests, particle accelerators involve accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets.