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(AP) -- MySpace's online music venture with recording labels completed its purchase of song streaming site imeem on Tuesday, scooping up its 16 million users and mobile phone applications for less than $1 million. http://www.physorg.com/news179511307.html Technology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:16:00 EST news179511307 (PhysOrg.com) -- Blue whales, the largest animals on earth, are singing with deeper voices every year, but scientists are unsure of the reason. http://www.physorg.com/news179478332.html Biology Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:40:03 EST news179478332 (AP) -- Two Web sites that sold songs by The Beatles for 25 cents apiece should remain shut down indefinitely, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news177839212.html Technology Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:47:22 EST news177839212 US online music service Bluebeat said it plans to fight British recording label EMI over rights to stream and sell versions of Beatles songs. http://www.physorg.com/news176810199.html Technology Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news176810199 (AP) -- A new music feature rolled out by Google Inc. Wednesday will bring its U.S. searchers one click away from listening to a full-length song. http://www.physorg.com/news175976398.html Technology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:50:01 EST news175976398 (PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing. http://www.physorg.com/news175327244.html Biology Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:50:01 EST news175327244 Apple on Friday confirmed that Michael Jackson's "This Is It" music compilation will be available at online shop iTunes a day before the release of the compact disc version. http://www.physorg.com/news174978993.html Technology Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:00:04 EST news174978993 (PhysOrg.com) -- Two competing species of Amazonian birds use the same songs to communicate with each other, Oxford University scientists have found, the first evidence that convergent evolution can arise through social interactions between species. http://www.physorg.com/news171657690.html Biology Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:42:09 EST news171657690 The Beatles rock-and-roll invasion that conquered the music scene in the 1960s has been reborn in a hotly-anticipated assault on the world of videogames. http://www.physorg.com/news170661212.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:40:01 EST news170661212 Love songs aren't only for soft rock FM stations - they're also used by romantic bats, and researchers at Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin are believed to be the first to decode the mysterious love sounds made by the winged creatures. Their work is published in the current issue of PloS One (Public Library of Science). http://www.physorg.com/news170416884.html Biology Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:01:47 EST news170416884 (AP) -- Social networking hub MySpace said Wednesday it is acquiring iLike, a popular music application on rival Facebook, in the first move by new management to expand after a series of drastic cuts and writedowns. http://www.physorg.com/news169920116.html Technology Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:20:03 EST news169920116 The results of a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study that rapidly measures stream habitat have been adopted by a government agency working with private landowners to restore waterways throughout the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news169826614.html Biology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news169826614 (AP) -- A Boston University graduate student was "a kid who did what kids do" when he swapped songs through file-sharing networks like Kazaa, his lawyer said Tuesday as his copyright-infringement trial began. http://www.physorg.com/news167998654.html Technology Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:18:01 EST news167998654 (AP) -- Universal Music Group's distribution arm is teaming up with digital track distributor TuneCore, a move it says will give it a leg up in signing up-and-coming artists without a recording deal yet. http://www.physorg.com/news166337532.html Technology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 06:20:03 EST news166337532 Videogames are getting their groove on with a collection of new music titles, as bands including the legendary Beatles are won over to a new platform for selling their songs. http://www.physorg.com/news163315303.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:22:09 EST news163315303 (PhysOrg.com) -- The learning of birdsong resembles the learning of speech in humans. Crucial for the process are acoustic perception and the ability to produce sound. Social isolation leads to a disturbed vocal development both in humans and in birds. When children grow up without contact to other humans they either develop no or a rudimentary form of human language. http://www.physorg.com/news162652235.html Biology Wed, 27 May 2009 14:11:13 EST news162652235 Why is it that some birds sing such elaborate songs and others not so much? A new study published online on May 21st in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, says that climate patterns might be part of the answer. http://www.physorg.com/news162129618.html Biology Thu, 21 May 2009 13:00:51 EST news162129618 At a recent IEEE technology conference, UC San Diego electrical engineers presented a solution to their problem with the song "Bohemian Rhapsody," -and it's not that they don't like this hit from the band Queen. The electrical engineers' issue with "Bohemian Rhapsody" is that it is too heterogeneous. With its mellow piano, falsetto vocals, rock opera sections and crazy guitar solos, Bohemian Rhapsody is so internally varied that machine learning algorithms at the heart of their experimental music search engine have trouble labeling the song. The solution presented at the 2009 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Taiwan could lead to improvements in the electrical engineers' song labeling and search engine system. http://www.physorg.com/news161607335.html Technology Fri, 15 May 2009 11:56:21 EST news161607335 A new initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using music to raise public awareness about aquatic invasive species in the state. http://www.physorg.com/news160827329.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 May 2009 11:16:13 EST news160827329 In an experiment that points to a role for genetics in the development of culture, biologists at The City College of New York (CCNY) and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) have discovered that zebra finches raised in isolation will, over several generations, produce a song similar to that sung by the species in the wild. http://www.physorg.com/news160592801.html Biology Sun, 03 May 2009 18:07:00 EST news160592801 Apple has a history of making things without features that many people consider essential. http://www.physorg.com/news159012835.html Electronics Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:14:42 EST news159012835 (AP) -- The era of one-price-fits-all-songs on iTunes came to an end Tuesday as Apple Inc., the Internet's dominant digital music retailer, began selling some of its most-downloaded songs for $1.29 apiece. http://www.physorg.com/news158328067.html Technology Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:01:21 EST news158328067 (AP) -- Apple Inc. unveiled a minuscule new iPod Shuffle on Wednesday that takes its "smaller is better" mantra to a whole new level. http://www.physorg.com/news155989580.html Electronics Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:15:29 EST news155989580 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) -- How two British coastal communities, hundreds of miles apart, came to be associated with a centuries-old tale of monkey murder has been investigated as part of a new study. http://www.physorg.com/news150999188.html Other Sciences Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:13:08 EST news150999188 (PhysOrg.com) -- To many people, bird song can herald the coming of spring, reveal what kind of bird is perched nearby or be merely an unwelcome early morning intrusion. But to Sandra Vehrencamp, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, bird song is a code from which to glean insights into avian behavior. http://www.physorg.com/news148839199.html Biology Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:13:19 EST news148839199 (PhysOrg.com) -- As anyone who watched the Olympics can appreciate, timing matters when it comes to complex sequential actions. It can make a difference between a perfect handspring and a fall, for instance. But what controls that timing? MIT scientists are closing in on the brain regions responsible, thanks to some technical advances and some help from songbirds. http://www.physorg.com/news145717517.html Biology Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:05:17 EST news145717517 (PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of the summer Asian Monsoons. http://www.physorg.com/news145199282.html Other Sciences Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:08:02 EST news145199282