When listening to music, the human brain appears to be biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios—for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time ...

But in certain situations -- outracing or outmaneuvering a predator, for example -- the ratios of those periods change drastically. In the design of robots built to emulate dogs, fish or birds, ...

Bumblebees have learned to recognise Morse code-like sequences of flashing lights and vibrations, demonstrating a sense of rhythm that has never been seen in such a small-brained animal. The ability ...

Dr. Maher, Dr. Spira, and Chunyu Liu join the program to discuss new research linking daily activity–rest rhythms measured by wrist accelerometers to biological aging measured with epigenetic clocks.

The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study.