Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. They collected and analysed a huge dataset of more than ...

Clapping is a universal gesture used across cultures to celebrate, protest, worship, or perform—but a new study shows it's not just social, it's also deeply scientific. Researchers from Cornell ...

North American adults have problems perceiving and reproducing irregular rhythms. That's what past studies have shown, and some new research has addressed the question of whether our seeming inability ...

Every human life moves to a beat. From the womb to the end of life, we are driven by powerful rhythms which we barely understand - the pulse of our blood, the beat of our heart, the wheeling of the ...