I don’t believe in ghosts. But the sounds I hear in the dark – the stuff that stirs the dog from a dead sleep and leaves him staring into the void at my door – make me doubt. That’s the truth of it, ...

What is it about Jimi Hendrix that so many people find appealing? According to scientists at UCLA, it’s all in the music – or rather, the dissonance in that music: the unexpected, jarring, almost ...

Why are some musical chords so inherently pleasing while others sound so obviously dissonant? A study of a group of people with the genetic condition amusia, which causes sufferers to incorrectly ...