For the Bachman’s sparrow, whether a song is passed to the next generation could depend, in part, on the wind and trees.

"I started working with these birds 25 years ago," says Jeffrey Podos, professor of biology at UMass Amherst and the paper's senior author. " In my very first publication on the finches, back in 2001, ...

Key changes can be what set one pop song apart from another, what turns a potential hit into an actual hit. In the 1980s, key changes were everywhere in pop and even rock music. Let’s look at a few ...