Arts/Culture

Investigators in China created a functioning 3D-printed ukulele and used acoustics to compare its sound quality to a standard wooden instrumentCredit: Xiaoyu Niu SAN DIEGO, December 5, 2019 -- Music is an art, but it is also a…

Credit: Bernabei at al., 2019 The ancient Romans relied on long-distance timber trading to construct their empire, according to a study published December 4, 2019 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Mauro Bernabei from the National…

By correlating bright lines within the atomic spectra to audible tones, individual atom notes can be identified to create atom songs, allowing us to 'see' their musicCredit: Skidmore College SAN DIEGO, December 4, 2019 -- Atom music is…

Study finds correlation between bead size and herding practices in ancient African culturesCredit: Miller et al, 2019 Researchers can track cultural changes across ancient Africa by tracking the sizes of ostrich eggshell beads,…

Turning the page for Spot boosts literacy in young studentsCredit: UBCO Reading in the presence of a pooch may be the page-turning motivation young children need, suggests a UBC researcher. Camille Rousseau, a doctoral student in…

New archeological analysis challenges long-standing hypotheses about ostrich eggshell beads and the spread of pastoralism in AfricaCredit: Hans Sell Ostrich eggshell beads are some of the oldest ornaments made by humankind, and they can be…

Credit: Texas A&M University Some community parks are square, a reflection of the city block where they're located -- but irregularly shaped parks reduce the mortality risk of residents who live near them, concluded a study by…

CMU researchers develop system to identify and translate memes People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, often with the help of screen reader software. But that technology falls short when it encounters memes,…

Scholars and aficionados can search, download and study 160,000 pages of high-resolution, full-color manuscripts dating to the ninth century, thanks to library partnerships, in a project funded by a Council on Library and Information…

Why do some people learn music more quickly than others? Intelligence could play a role, according to a Michigan State University study that investigated the early stages of learning to play piano. Published in the journal…