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Opera and classical music can relax you – and maybe your immune system, if results with mice extend to us. Because mice that got heart transplants and who listened to opera and classical music had better outcomes than those exposed to other sounds. The work is in the Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Crickets make a big contribution to the sounds of a summer night. And they’ve been doing so for some 165 million years

Performance usually improves with practice, but not if training is a rotten time. A new study shows that people’s ability to identify noises declines when the sounds are paired with putrid smells--a phenomenon that may allow our brain to detect danger more quickly

On the occasion of hitting 8.5 million users, the cofounder of the dead-simple, fun, social web audio service shares which recent recordings were music to his ears. SoundCloud , the beautiful, easy-to-use widget becoming more and more ubiquitous on the web, has reached 8.5 million users--including