A study explores how sound induces rhythmic movement in chimpanzees. Music influences rhythmic movement in humans, suggesting a link between the brain's auditory and motor areas. Understanding ...

Scientists at Hokkaido University and Hiroshima University have found that green brittle stars with five arms show a different "pumping" movement pattern than those with six arms. Using a mathematical ...

Using a combination of telescopes, including the Very Large Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (ESO's VLT), astronomers have revealed a system consisting of six exoplanets, five of which ...

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Most people can dance and tap their feet to the beat, but a few recent research studies have shown that some people are better at keeping a rhythm than others. One group of researchers looked at ...

Researchers have found that macaques can tap along to a musical beat and it upends the assumption that only animals with vocal-learning abilities can find and move to a groove. The research team also ...