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Apple has released the iTunes Rewind 2011, with the best and most sold in 2011 in music, movies and apps, according to data collected in the Spanish iTunes Store. The VERY Interesting magazine app for iPad is in one of the "top ten".

Do you want to be NASA's new deejay? The space agency has opened a vote for the public to choose their favorite song to wake up the six crew members of Endeavor's STS-134 mission, the last before it is withdrawn from circulation.

The intense pleasure we feel when listening to music causes the brain to secrete dopamine, a neurotransmitter that is also released when faced with more specific pleasures associated with food, sex, drug use or money, according to a study published in the journal 'Nature Neuroscience'.

Why are we the only dancing animal? Answering this and other questions related to learning rhythmic skills is dedicated to Lawrence Parsons, a neurologist who sets the tone. He is the protagonist of the latest installment of 'Wonderful Minds' by Punset.

Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have developed a way to convert the collision of subatomic particles into sound, as the ears are better adapted than the eyes to detect the subtle changes that could indicate the presence of a new particle. . The first tests reveal a surprising musicality in the collisions.

99% of the population has felt at some point "infected" by a song that cannot be removed from their heads. Andréane McNally-Gagnon and Silvie Hébert, from the University of Montreal (Canada), have decided to study the phenomenon in depth.

Mozart sonatas are pleasant to the ear, but the belief that they enhance children's intelligence is false, according to new research by scientists at the University of Vienna and published in the journal Intelligence.

NeuroFocus, the world's leading neuromarketing company, applying the latest brain insights to advertising, has created a music format called 'Brain-Hop', which they describe as a marriage of hip-hop and neuroscience.