The results also reflect the power of music to unite people, Levitin said.

CNN: This is your brain on music

Listen to something that makes you energetic at the beginning of the day, and listen to a soothing song after an argument, Levitin says.

CNN: Music: It's in your head, changing your brain

"It's not our natural tendency to thrust ourselves into a crowd of 20, 000 people, but for a Muse concert or a Radiohead concert we'll do it, " Levitin said.

CNN: This is your brain on music

But Levitin and his collaborators showed in a European Journal of Neuroscience study that, from the perspective of the brain, there may be more similarities among music listeners than you think.

CNN: This is your brain on music

The producer who's laid down beats for those stars, 'Apple Juice Kid' (aka Stephen Levitin) along with fellow UNC prof Pierce Freelon aim to find out with a new PBS series called Beat Making Lab.

ENGADGET: Producer: James Trew

The producer who's laid down beats for those stars, 'Apple Juice Kid' (aka Steven Levitin) along with fellow UNC prof Pierce Frelon aim to find out with a new PBS series called Beat Making Lab.

ENGADGET

It is plausible that Lancaster's bird sounds would have their claimed effect on crime, says Daniel Levitin, a neuroscientist at McGill University, as long as an individual genuinely found that sound pleasing and songbirds were used.

WSJ: A California City Is Into Tweeting��Chirping, Actually��in a Big Way

As Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Centre and Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania pointed out in a recent paper on the causes of the housing bubble in America, it is impossible to borrow the Empire State Building in order to sell New York real estate short.

ECONOMIST: Bricks and slaughter