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, ...

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows. Chimpanzees and humans last shared a common ancestor around 6 million years ago. Scientists suspect this ancient ...

Recognising rhythmic patterns was thought to require a big brain, but a series of experiments has shown that buff-tailed ...

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.

But our new research, published today in the journal Science, shows humans are not alone in mastering rhythm. Even the ...