An intriguing new study shows positive cognitive effects for older people playing an instrument for the first time.

Older adults who kept practising a musical instrument or learnt a new instrument even after 70 preserved memory better than ...

Those who are blessed with long lives will eventually experience a decline in cognitive functions, and working memory is particularly susceptible. However, various forms of exercise and activities ...

Almost anything can be a musical instrument. A horse’s jawbone? A couple of rocks, a stick, and some string? An armadillo shell? A box with a constantly buzzing antenna sticking out of it? Something ...

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A belly turns into a drum, hands mold into percussion tools and a face adorns a brass bell in this anatomical art history show ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...

In creating the first-of-its-kind instrument, he invented something that helped define his legacy.