Ultrasound opens the brain’s barrier to Alzheimer’s drugs in tiny trials
About 260 people with Alzheimer’s have had the procedure across 27 studies, none of them randomized, and the most striking result so far comes…
Ohio State will test six weeks of sound bowls on 40 caregivers
A registered pilot study will measure anxiety and caregiver stress before and after weekly hour-long sessions, with no comparison group to show what the…
Tarek Atoui fills Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall with sound from October 13
The Beirut-born composer, who builds instruments from glass, water and ceramics, takes on the free annual Hyundai Commission until April 11, with live improvised…
Hearing tests found four hearing-loss genes that diagnosis codes missed
A Vanderbilt team ran the same genetic search twice, once on billing codes for 61,469 people and once on audiograms from 16,057, and only…
Bring your own playlist to the needle and the scanner
In a 204-patient Zürich trial, patients’ own favorite music cut cannulation pain where “relaxation music” did nothing, and a 57-study review explains why choosing…
What is a sound wave, and why 432 Hz is not magic
Pressure, frequency, amplitude and resonance in plain language, and why the 432 Hz and 528 Hz “healing tuning” claims rest on one small student…
The 10-minute birdsong reset, and why traffic cancels it
Two 2026 studies found 10 minutes of birdsong raised heart-rate variability and improved mood, and that road noise below WHO limits erased the gain.
Two editions of one sound-healing market report disagree by double
Research and Markets now pegs sound healing apps at $279.9M in 2026 growing to $558.4M by 2032; its own earlier edition said $122.3M to…
A hearing-aid sound generator beat placebo for tinnitus in France
Across six specialist clinics and 12 weeks, 88% of patients on a sound generator reported meaningful improvement, against 33% on placebo amplification.
Sound baths are everywhere in 2026, and the science is still small
From a Seattle cathedral nap concert to office wellness hours, singing-bowl sessions have gone mainstream on studies of about 50 people and an explanation…
Screen-delivered music preserved autobiographical memory in dementia trial
In a 166-person Finnish trial, pre-recorded group sessions and live music therapy both held autobiographical memory steady over 10 weeks, but neither moved general…
Rice wins $3.9M to test whether composing music protects aging brains
A five-year National Institute on Aging trial will put 210 adults over 65 with mild cognitive impairment through a six-week composition course, tracked with…
Universal and Apple release 151 pop songs with beats mixed underneath
Universal’s Sollos unit embeds gamma, theta and delta beats under Sam Smith, Olivia Dean and others for World Mental Health Day; the evidence is…
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