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Natural sounds such as birdsong can improve your mental health

Listening to birdsong significantly reduces anxiety and paranoia, according a new German study. By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH...

Parkinson’s diagnosis in 10 seconds: From the sound of your voice

Associate Professor Nemuel Daniel Pah, Professor Dinesh Kumar and Dr Quoc Cuong Ngo developed the...

British journals forced to retract fake Chinese science papers

A recent report suggested one in 50 papers submitted to journals come from shadowy operations...

What’s the deal with airline food? Don’t eat the buns!

There are some tricks that will make meals on the plane tastier. Wearing headphones for...

New Israeli med tech introduces musical test to detect mental decline

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Elderly man (illustrative) (photo credit: PIXABAY) Cognitive decline in the elderly can be...

Noise pollution is hurting animals – and we don’t even know how much

If you don’t like noise, imagine how pets and other animals feel about it. Aleksey Boyko/Shutterstock...

The shooting in California was reportedly incited by an ongoing dispute between two neighbours.

Dr Pin-Hsin Lin was warming up before she was due to teach a piano lesson in her...

Listen to the man who holds the record for lowest vocal note sung by a human

By Maddy Shaw Roberts How low can he go? Turns out, ludicrously, earth-shatteringly low… Since...

Jamming to your favorite tunes? It could work as a painkiller – study

Music is becoming more widely recognized as a pain management tool, but scientists still question...

What Should a Nine-Thousand-Pound Electric Vehicle Sound Like?

E.V.s are virtually silent, so acoustic designers are creating alerts for them. A symphony—or a cacophony—of car noise could be...