http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Good sleep equals good health, says Raul Noriega, manager of the Comprehensive Epilepsy and Sleep Disorders Center at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine. Yet more than half of women report problems with insomnia. According to the National Sleep Foundation, `women`s lack of sleep affects nearly every aspect of their time-pressed lives, leaving them late for work, stressed out, tired and with little time for friends.` What`s going on? There are several factors, Noriega says, and all relate to poor sleep hygiene. http://www.physorg.com/news156620879.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:48:31 EST news156620879 (AP) -- Music fans who want to mix games and social networking while listening to songs on the Internet now have a site called Loudcrowd, created in part by developers behind "Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero." http://www.physorg.com/news156517151.html Technology Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:59:33 EST news156517151 Children exposed to a multi-year programme of music tuition involving training in increasingly complex rhythmic, tonal, and practical skills display superior cognitive performance in reading skills compared with their non-musically trained peers, according to a study published today in the journal Psychology of Music, published by SAGE. http://www.physorg.com/news156425306.html Medicine & Health Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:29:34 EST news156425306 YouTube on Monday said it is blocking certain copyrighted music videos in Britain until it overcomes an impasse in a licensing deal with the Performing Rights Society for Music (PRS). http://www.physorg.com/news155845312.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:22:18 EST news155845312 A schoolboy and his father have unleashed software that lets people listen to YouTube's vast collection of music videos as if it were a private collection. http://www.physorg.com/news155845130.html Technology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 19:19:29 EST news155845130 Google-owned YouTube and the world's largest music recording company Universal Music Group are reportedly discussing collaborating on a premium music video website. http://www.physorg.com/news155538493.html Technology Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:08:56 EST news155538493 (PhysOrg.com) -- The sound is unearthly -the sort of hypnotic drone you might hear from the chanting of state-of-the-art Tibetan monks. Or a vibration picked up via radio signals from another galaxy. http://www.physorg.com/news155400617.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:51:05 EST news155400617 (PhysOrg.com) -- Melancholic songs, dance rhythms or romantic background music? The mood player can recognize musical characteristics and sort songs according to moods. It also blends in suitable images to the rhythm of the music. http://www.physorg.com/news155326468.html Technology Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:14:57 EST news155326468 (PhysOrg.com) -- Looking for a mate who in everyday conversation can pick up even your most subtle emotional cues? Find a musician, Northwestern University researchers suggest. http://www.physorg.com/news155309993.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 13:40:19 EST news155309993 A Swedish prosecutor on Monday called for one year jail terms for four men charged with running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top websites for illegal downloading. http://www.physorg.com/news155223178.html Technology Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:33:29 EST news155223178 (PhysOrg.com) -- Early screening and treatment for infants with hearing problems, and the ability to computer-generate musical scores, are two very different possible outcomes of some `off-the-wall` research. http://www.physorg.com/news154710030.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:01:12 EST news154710030 (Physorg.com) -- We all know the feeling: a golden oldie comes blaring over the radio and suddenly we're transported back - to a memorable high-school dance, or to that perfect afternoon on the beach with friends. But what is it about music that can evoke such vivid memories? http://www.physorg.com/news154683105.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:35:26 EST news154683105 A new study involving iPods and teenagers by the University of Colorado at Boulder and Children's Hospital Boston indicates teenagers who receive pressure from their peers or others to turn down the volume of their iPods instead turn them up higher. http://www.physorg.com/news154186250.html Medicine & Health Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:31:32 EST news154186250 When Apple Inc. announced in January that it would sell restriction-free music files, that was supposed to mean consumers could buy songs and play them on the portable gadget of their choice. http://www.physorg.com/news153599790.html Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:36:58 EST news153599790 (PhysOrg.com) -- Music Professor Jason Freeman created Piano Etudes, a Web-based application that allows audiences to participate in the composition process. http://www.physorg.com/news153595977.html Technology Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:33:19 EST news153595977 A new study in the journal Social Science Quarterly reveals that music participation, defined as music lessons taken in or out of school and parents attending concerts with their children, has a positive effect on reading and mathematic achievement in early childhood and adolescence. Additionally, socioeconomic status and ethnicity affect music participation. http://www.physorg.com/news153515103.html Other Sciences Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:05:47 EST news153515103 Researchers at the Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation of the University of Amsterdam demonstrated that two to three day old babies can detect the beat in music. This phenomenon - termed ‘beat induction` - is likely to have contributed to music`s origin. It enables such actions as clapping, making music together and dancing to a rhythm. Beat induction is also considered to be uniquely human. Even our closest evolutionary relatives, such as the chimpanzee and bonobo, do not synchronise their behaviour to rhythmic sounds. http://www.physorg.com/news152271199.html Medicine & Health Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:33:49 EST news152271199 Whether the soundtrack of your youth was doo-wop or disco, new wave or Nirvana, psychology research at Kansas State University shows that even just thinking about a particular song can evoke vivid memories of the past. http://www.physorg.com/news151778604.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:43:50 EST news151778604 (PhysOrg.com) -- Preteens and teenagers today are involved in music in ways that never could have been imagined 50 years ago. Yet America`s secondary school music education programs remain strikingly similar to those of five decades ago, according to the author of a national study in the latest issue of the Journal of Research in Music Education. http://www.physorg.com/news147461758.html Other Sciences Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:35:58 EST news147461758 Listening to your favorite music may be good for your cardiovascular system. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have shown for the first time that the emotions aroused by joyful music have a healthy effect on blood vessel function. http://www.physorg.com/news145645003.html Medicine & Health Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:56:43 EST news145645003 (PhysOrg.com) -- If you own a cell phone, then new software created by Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology director Gil Weinberg and his students will allow you to be the next composer and performer of your own original music. http://www.physorg.com/news145287123.html Technology Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:32:03 EST news145287123 (PhysOrg.com) -- Georgia Tech has created an improved version of the robotic percussionist. The second edition, named Shimon, is designed to play a melodic instrument - the marimba. It, therefore, utilizes more sophisticated algorithms for music perception and improvisation in comparison to Haile, Georgia Tech`s first robotic drummer. The robot can also create richer sound and more communicative visual cues. http://www.physorg.com/news145286687.html Technology Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:24:47 EST news145286687 (PhysOrg.com) -- Babies as young as 5 months old can distinguish an upbeat song from among gloomier compositions; and by the time they're 9 months, they can also pick out the sad song from among the happy ones. That's according to a new study by a research team that included Iowa State University Assistant Professor of Psychology Douglas Gentile. http://www.physorg.com/news143394074.html Medicine & Health Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:41:14 EST news143394074 Music therapy can reduce psychological stress among pregnant women, according to research just published in a special complementary and alternative therapy medicine issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing. http://www.physorg.com/news142519086.html Medicine & Health Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:38:06 EST news142519086 MP3 files, video streams, digital images - the flood of multimedia data swells higher every day. New systems help the user to keep tabs on it all. At the International Broadcasting Convention IBC in Amsterdam on September 12 through 16, Fraunhofer scientists will present professional solutions for the intelligent searching, analysis and administration of multimedia data. http://www.physorg.com/news140284271.html Technology Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:51:11 EST news140284271 (PhysOrg.com) -- Neuroscientists and musicians have learned that looking at the brain on music can yield valuable insights into how the mind works. Yet, University of Arkansas music theorist Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis cautions that such research has produced some unintended consequences, such as the mistaken notion that listening to Mozart in particular boosts brainpower. http://www.physorg.com/news139758665.html Medicine & Health Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:51:05 EST news139758665 Commercial venues are very aware of the effects that the environment - in this case, music - can have on in-store traffic flow, sales volumes, product choices, and consumer time spent in the immediate vicinity. A study of the effects of music levels on drinking in a bar setting has found that loud music leads to more drinking in less time. http://www.physorg.com/news135646989.html Medicine & Health Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:43:09 EST news135646989