Drum lessons keep showing up in headlines about ADHD. The studies are smaller, and about different kids, than the headlines suggest. Here is what the research covers, and why drums may be worth trying anyway.

The playlists, the beats, the noise: what each one is, and what the studies actually found.

Entrainment is one of the oldest tricks in physics and one of the most reliable things a human brain does. The story starts with two clocks on a beam in 1665.

The best drumming research ever run was done with autistic teens, and it exists partly because the drummer from Blondie spent his last two decades helping scientists study his instrument.

Where the evidence is strong, where it's promising, and where it's still young. The short version of our Science page.