Sometimes it really is all about that bass, especially at a science lab at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, which doubles as a music venue. Scientists there are studying the musical ingredients ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. Hopkin: Ever notice that some music just really makes you want to dance? Well, a new study shows that it is, indeed, ...

A recent research study found that low-frequency bass make people more likely to dance at a live music performance, even if they can’t actually hear the extremely low sounds. A recent research study ...

Big news for DJs everywhere: scientists have figured out a surefire way to make people boogie. Surprisingly, it has little to do with audible sound, like a repetitive guitar lick or killer drum solo.

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TORONTO (CTV Network) — According to a new study from researchers at McMaster University, inaudible low-frequency bass makes you groove more on the dancefloor – an average of 11.8 per cent more, to be ...

To find out how different aspects of music influence the body, researchers turned a live electronic music concert into a lab study. By introducing levels of bass over speakers that were too low to ...

When it comes to getting a boogie on, it is all about that bass. Using a specially designed research centre called LIVELab that uses motion sensors to detect movement in a replicated concert hall, a ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with neuroscientist Daniel Cameron, who found that inaudible, low-frequency bass appears to make people boogie nearly 12% more on the dancefloor. Sometimes it really is all ...

Sometimes, it really is all about that bass. A recent study in the journal Current Biology found that people danced 12% more when very low frequency bass was played. The study was done by scientists ...