A laugh can feel spontaneous, messy, almost impossible to pin down. But deep inside that burst of sound, researchers found a ...

There are many kinds of laughter. People may guffaw at a joke. They may giggle nervously in an uncomfortable situation. They may chuckle with ​mild amusement. They may snicker to express contempt — ...

Words vanish the instant they’re spoken, and no skeleton can tell us when our ancestors first started talking. So how can ...

Until now, it had been unclear how our laughter may have changed over millions of years of evolution, and how it might relate ...

In a significant departure from earlier models, neural engineers and neuroscientists have developed a new model for the brain activity underlying arm movements. Motor neurons do not represent external ...

Biological rhythms aren't just for sleep. In the tiny worm C. elegans, researchers in the Grosshans lab and the Computational Biology Platform of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical ...

Laughter feels deeply human. It appears in conversations, family gatherings, awkward moments and bursts of joy. Yet the roots of that familiar sound stretch much further back than human history itself ...

Puerto Rican icon Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, has recently risen to global prominence, as demonstrated by the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show. Bad Bunny's success is not only down to his charismatic ...

A well-trained athlete sprinting 100 yards performs a highly stereotyped, repetitive motor pattern. Neuroscientists understand that these rhythmic motor programs, such as walking, swimming and running ...

At its most fundamental level, a rhythmic pattern is the scaffolding upon which a musical composition rests. It manifests as a deliberate series of beats, accents, rests, and relative durations that ...