Chill-inducing songs boost cortical connectivity and activate dopamine release.

All my life I’ve been involved in music and molecular biology. At the crossroads between science and art, I see great scope for insight.

In April 1945, Madame Roos wrote a letter to French authorities describing her piano she was hoping to get back. Roos, who was 72, was Jewish and her piano had been stolen when Nazis emptied her apartment in Paris.

Scholars look to recover the original soundscape of the composer’s work

From music’s effects on fatigue to its motivational properties, the right soundtrack is a powerful tool for improving your ability to run well

This sonic experimentalism, born in 1940s Paris and Cairo, left a lasting legacy on modern music

Vivian Perlis founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music in 1968. Today, the project continues her mission to record the voices of American composers.

First there was slow TV – now radio and podcasts are getting in on the act with ambient recordings of forest walks and bird calls