John M. McBride

Some Irish traditional tunes are 29% more likely to be learned based on their social and melodic features, revealing a surprising mechanism behind cultural selection and diversity.

Musical scales are not just musical constructs but complex, convention-driven entities that vary significantly across cultures and contexts.

Cultural evolution of music reveals distinct patterns that challenge traditional views from molecular evolution, driven by social and cognitive biases rather than biochemical constraints.

A new protein surface comparison method, IFACE, reveals functionally relevant similarities missed by traditional fold-based approaches by jointly considering geometric and chemical properties.