Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in the journal Nature details the oldest known tadpole fossil. Ringing in 20 million years ...

These categories can vary wildly across cultures: songs can be lilting lullabies or rhythmic chants or wailing laments, and some spoken languages have more “musical” qualities, such as tonal ...

Students at South Science and Technology Magnet are getting some hands-on learning in music this week. Students from the Lima ...

But some of these scientific metaphors also have a downside, and can even set research back. Sam Harnett and Chris Hoff are the hosts of the podcast series “The World According to Sound,” and they sat ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

And, a pair of musicians wrote a concept album inspired by moths—and found that humans have more in common with the insects than they expected. How Metaphor Has Shaped Science, For Better Or ...

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No psychiatric treatment has attracted quite as much cash and hype as psychedelics have in the past decade ... makes it only more important that the science behind them is as rigorous as possible ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Scientists investigating animal viruses with potential to infect humans have identified a critical protein that could enable spillover of a family of organisms called arteriviruses.

That might have been considered science fiction 20 years ago, but scientists now warn that the film's terrifying plot could be coming true. In an open letter to Nordic policymakers, 44 of the ...

Oct. 31, 2024 — Researchers have created the first blueprint of the human spliceosome, the most complex and intricate molecular machine in human biology. The vast majority of human genes -- more ...