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Finches Can Learn to Sing Differently Than Their Genetics Dictate

Published 2017-12-30 finches genetics sing

The song training that Bengalese finches received appeared to overcome tempo tendencies baked into their genes. Christopher Intagliata reports. Learn more about…

Cardinal Rule: Female Birds Sing, Too

Published 2018-06-26 660 cardinal female

Many people assume only male birds do the singing. But females also sing in at least 660 species and perhaps many more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit …

Sing Solo for Higher Fidelity

Published 2019-03-19 choir fidelity sing

By tracking duetting choir singers, researchers found that when an individual singer's pitch drifts off tune their partner’s tend to too. Christopher Intagliata…

Why Do We Sing? Musicologists and Neuroscientists Seek an Answer

Published 2025-07-12 singing neuroscientists musicologists

Last year Science Quickly looked across disciplines to piece apart the science of singing. To understand why humans sing, musicologists collaborated on an inter…

Clipse - The Birds Don't Sing

Published 2025-11-13 malice sing clipse

Clipse was formed in 1994 by two brothers: Gene Thornton Jr, aka Malice, and his younger brother Terrence Thornton, aka Pusha T. From the beginning, they’ve wor…

What Makes Sand Dunes Sing

Published 2015-11-12 amplifies dunes caltech

Engineers at Caltech discovered that for sand dunes to produce sound they need a dry layer on top that amplifies internal frequencies during sand movement. Chri…