This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. The elderly suffer from an alarming epidemic. A third of people over 65 fall at least once a year. Half of those fall more frequently. Exercise can help,

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Making Music for Monkey Minds A study in the journal Biology Letters finds that music based on monkey's own calls has similar effects on them that human music has on us. Cynthia Graber reports Music is known to make us happy, or calm, or sad. But do

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Music is known to make us happy, or calm, or sad. But do other animals respond to dulcet tones, as well? In studies, our primate cousins prefer silence to our music. But maybe we were playing the wrong tune. Psychologist Charles Snowdon and musician

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When you are in a sticky situation, experience has proven there is only one calming voice you can trust to guide you safely through. 身处困境时,经验告诉我们只有足够沉着冷静的声音才能带你脱险。 Soon the voice of God hims

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