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The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge...

A research collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Queen Mary University of London and the Institute for High Pressure Physics in Troitsk...

Mice court one another with ultrasonic love songs that are inaudible to the human ear. New research shows they make these unique high frequency sounds...

Future hearing aids could be adjusted by the wearer to remove background noise using new technology that could also be used to clean up and search...

An epic, 24-hour celebration of religious music will be taking place at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, this week, starting on Wednesday evening...

Greece was the birthplace of democracy, but our own political system would be unrecognisable to voters in Ancient Athens. As Classicist Paul Cartledge...

Nine of the 44 new Royal Society Fellows announced today are Cambridge academics. Their election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society recognises...

Why does one violin sound different to another? Investigating this question has brought together researchers from music, engineering, experimental...

They say that early to bed, early to rise, makes one healthy, wealthy and wise; but in Japan, it may also be feeding a nationalist revival not seen...

Innovative research in the Department of Linguistics suggests that dynamic features of speech could provide a clue to forensic speaker identification...