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[Photo by: Pexels] Need a reason to crank up the jams? Listening to metal music can actually improve your mental health, according to a new study published in the Journal of Community Psychology. Looks like it's time to start headbanging! Read more: Study explains why we don't like new music In “Contextualizing the Mental Health […]

[Photo by: Pexels] Why don't people like new music? Are today's artists really lacking in comparison to past performers? A new study from The New York Times examines why we tend to prefer the music from our formative, teenage years. Read more: How soon can you tell if a song is happy or sad? Even […]

A recent scientific study has found that internet trolls are likely to be psychopaths and sadists. The new findings attempt to unpack the psychological motivations behind quarrelsome and inflammatory posting online. Read more: Can you tell if a song is happy or sad from the first few notes? If you've ever been the victim of […]

Can you tell if a song is happy or sad within the first few seconds of hearing it? A recent scientific study confirms the long-held impression that, yes, the chordal composition of a tune is usually related to its lyrical content. Read more: Get goosebumps while listening to music? Here's what it means As reported […]

Real-life “zombies” are the fast ones, says neuroscience. The lazy, lumbering spectres seen in classic horror flicks like Night Of The Living Dead just don't compare to our closest experience of zombification: Sleepwalking. Read more: 10 essential odes to zombies Contrary to the slow pace of the fictional walking dead, those who “rise from the […]

Dr. Gregory Berns is a neuroscientist at Emory University and he possibly has the best job in the world. He spends his days scanning dogs' brains trying to figure out what they're thinking. Does your dog really know that he's a good boy? Does he love you more than he loves his food? Check out […]

[GIF by: Popkey] Science rules. And it rules even harder when it explains questions in the music world. There have been studies on everything from why people hate Nickelback to what makes for good workout music to where your brain changes when you decide you want to buy a song. Here are 12 scientific studies […]

[Photo by: ZME Science]  Do you ever get goosebumps from listening to music? Apparently the phenomenon is pretty rare. A student at Harvard decided to study people who get chills from music and his findings are amazing.  Read more: Why do people mosh? Matthew Sachs did the study while in undergrad at Harvard last year. He […]

[Photo credit: Robert Clark / National Geographic] No longer are dinosaur fossils only the casts of bones you see strung together in museums, with illustrations depicting what they looked like. This time, scientists have found a dinosaur preserved in sediment, looking just as we would recognize it. We're talking scales, horns and a face. Read […]

Let's face it: We all wish we could change our hair color all the time. However, we also don't want to permanently damage our beautiful locks. It's a problem that Lauren Bowker has solved. She's a data visualization expert who integrates science with fashion, and her newest creation is hair dye that changes color. Read […]

In order to create the perfect wake-up playlist, Spotify enlisted music psychologist and Cambridge PhD, David M. Greenberg. After breaking down the wake-up formula into the three categories of music that builds, positivity and a strong beat, the following 20 tracks were chosen, (via Business Insider). Read more: Radio stations were urged not to play this […]

As far as our scene as a whole is concerned, moshing is embedded into our culture. For many of us, push pits, circle pits, slam dancing and more are just second nature when we go to a show. But why? What makes us want to run into each other while music is being performed? Is […]

Listen to former AP&R band Science’s new song, “He’s No Good To Me Dead,” which features former My Chemical Romance guitarist Frank Iero on guest vocals. The track is taken from the group’s upcoming album, 20XX, which will be released December 13. Pre-orders are on sale now. The group features guitarist Evan Nestor, who plays guitar in […]

“All of the experiments in this video are real,” the text at the begging of the video reads. The sound frequencies from different speakers impacting with elements like fire, water and sand makes for a gorgeous music video. Water spirals, metal particles jump and flames dance in this science experiment-like video for Nigel Stanford’s “Cymatics.” […]

Have you ever wondered why all the bearded, flannel-wearing hipsters look exactly the same (despite thinking they’re so unique)?  (Photo: Hipster Barista meme)  Well, there is a mathematical reason why all hipsters look the same, and mathematical neuroscientist Jonathan Touboul of the Collège de France in Paris has figured it out. His paper explains why all […]

A recent study published by Stanford University looks at why cliques thrive in some schools more than others. Some schools are fiercely segregated by age, class, ethnic background, fashion choices—and others are not. What educational environment would, say, make the goth and the jock more likely to be friends and not segregated into cliques? The […]

Music can have all sorts of strange/interesting effects on the human brain. One of the more interesting effects is that sad music can actually make you feel better. Free University of Berlin Researchers Liila Taruffi and Stefan Koelsch surveyed 722 people from all over the world on the subject of sad songs. The survey “investigates the rewarding […]

Drummers often fall victim to the “drummers are idiots” stereotype and are typically the most “replaceable” in a band. In their “Best Drummer Jokes Ever” list, Music Radar used this gem: “How is a drum solo like a sneeze? You know it's coming, but there's nothing you can do about it.” PolyMic recently compiled a group […]

Okay, before the argument starts: We all know you can’t actually hear sound in space. But! Sound does “exist” in the form of electromagnetic vibrations. You couldn’t hear these sounds if you were, say, near them aboard a spacecraft. But special instruments on vessels like the Voyager space probe are able to translate the vibrations […]

Listen to former AP&R band Science’s new song, “Asteroids.” The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, 20XX, which will be released in early 2015. The group features guitarist Evan Nestor, who plays guitar in Frnkiero Andthe Cellabration (Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance’s new band). Check out the song below, and let us […]