Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

Last Friday, a fellow music-nut friend of mine sent me a link to an iPhone app based on composer Steve Reich's "Clapping Music." I've become totally obsessed with beating it. Anybody who's played ...

I’ve often dreamed of being a drummer. Not that I’ve actually worked to make it happen — come on, that would take years of sustained effort. But I’ve led countless family rhythm get-downs while ...

Stuck on a tricky math problem? Start clapping. Grade school kids who learned about fractions through a rhythm-and-music-based curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional math classes. The work ...

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is so fundamental to humans that we recognize patterns ...

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 ...