Michael Rank’s modernist home is tucked back into a sylvan stretch between Pittsboro and Carrboro, a steel-and-concrete prism that juts from the surrounding greenery. Gray and angled, the formidable ...

Motion sickness can ruin even the best trips. While there are several ways to combat it, one study suggests that this type of ...

Soft and joyful music produced the greatest reduction in sickness, averaging 56.7% and 57.3% relief, respectively. Passionate (stirring) music offered moderate relief (48.3%), while sad music ...

I for years believed in the Newtonian assertion that objects at rest tended to stay at rest, so I was an object at rest. Then several years ago, my daughter — who at the time had no sense of personal ...

Growing up as a musician in the major-label system, Aimee Mann says the thing she constantly heard was, “This doesn’t sound like a single. We need to have a single. It has to be more up-tempo. Radio ...

After we recently put out an informal Facebook survey on what music people listen to when they are down, my son and I received 71 responses in 24 hours. Each person sent their go-to music or even long ...