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The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from

Humans

The musical harmonies you like depend on where you're from

To Western ears, dissonant chords are harsh and jarring, but members of a native Amazonian society don’t judge them any worse than chords we find pleasing

News

Carlo Rovelli

Physics

You can touch the heart of physics without doing the hard bits

Features

Click festival

Technology

Theatre and dance are full-on and fearless at Click festival

Culture

A woman - the singer in the band - lying on her front in a water tank, in a red dress, with her mouth open - presumably

Humans

Making a splash: Let's hear it for the first underwater band

Culture

The musician Prince

Health

Purple pain: Why grief runs so deep when a pop icon dies young

Comment

Coltrane

Physics

Bananas and jazz help us penetrate physics – but only so far

CultureLab

Virtual instruments let you play music using only your eyes

Technology

Virtual instruments let you play music using only your eyes

News

Beyond the Fence musical

Technology

Beyond The Fence: how computers spawned a musical

CultureLab

Physics

Feedback: Quantum theory and the science of queueing

Regulars

Famous pianist Glenn Gould looks at a piece of Bach's sheet music

Life

Mind-reading tech helps beginners quickly learn to play Bach

A system involving brain sensors allowed a group of beginners to quickly learn to play a piano piece by Bach, and the tech could speed up other kinds of learning

News

Technology

Virtual auditoriums help nervous speakers boost their skills

News

Health

How trippy version of Mariah Carey Christmas hit fools the brain

News

Technology

Soviet-era bootleg music recorded on discarded X-ray plates

Regulars

Humans

Musical training may give your brain waves more rhythm

News