December brings fall semester's final exams and some students turn to music to help while they study. But is that a good idea? A September article from University of Maryland Global Campus touts the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers believe music can indeed help us to learn and concentrate better - so long as it puts us in a positive mood. Christin ...

Finals week is almost here. We know what that means: nights of locking into studies, solving practice problems at the library and the once-in-a-blue-moon breakdown the night before. But the grind ...

The Daily Campus Life Section discusses whether listening to music while studying is s productive way to stimulate college students, or if it’s a distraction. Photo by felipepelaquim/Unsplash. Yet ...

A new study showed that regularly listening to music, whether its' from Sir Mix A Lot (pictured here) or someone else, is associated with lower likelihoods of cognitive decline and dementia. (Photo by ...

The oldest known musical instruments— flutes carved from bones —are over 40,000 years old. And humans were likely making music before that, based on fossils showing our ancestors had the ability to ...

When you go to your next concert or listen to your favorite music on an app, you might first consider the lighting around you. Music is widely known for its ability to arouse, change moods or trigger ...