When Payam Khastkhodaei began teaching piano to a family friend’s daughter in his Bothell home at 16, he relied on the same method he had been taught as a kid—classical songbooks, rigid practice, and ...

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He found it in a Bass Connections project and his eventual selection of an Interdepartmental Major (IDM) in neuroscience and music. Now heading into his final semester, Wang is reflecting on how the ...

If you watch HBO’s The Pitt, you might have heard the gorgeous new song called “Need Someone” that Andrew Bird wrote for a ...

Anatomy of an earworm Ever had a song just…lodge itself in your brain? You’re not alone! That’s an earworm, and science has ...

A team of researchers in Japan has developed an artificial intelligence tool called YORU that can identify specific animal ...

Noubar Afeyan is founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering. He is also cofounder and board chair of Moderna. Massachusetts has long been a hotbed for innovation. Rebellious ideas — channeled through the ...

In 2026, The Brain Song reviews have sparked serious discussion across neuroscience and cognitive-health circles. At the center of the debate is a simple but disruptive question: can targeted sound ...

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Method Man didn't know that his verse on the original version of "Got My Mind Made Up" would land on 2Pac's final album. The Wu-Tang Clan member discussed the surprise on the Tuesday (Jan. 13) episode ...

Yakisugi is a Japanese architectural technique for charring the surface of wood. It has become quite popular in bioarchitecture because the carbonized layer protects the wood from water, fire, insects ...