When you listen to music, many brain regions fire up to help you analyze the sound and make sense of the emotions you feel in ...

There has to be some kind of science behind earworm songs. What is it about a particular tune, especially in the rock genre, that will make it repeat over and over inside one’s noggin? It’s equal ...

Cheers to science for this one. We've all been there, and we've all said it. "I can't get this stupid song out of my head now." Whether it's a song we heard in a store while shopping, a song someone ...

Like a good cup of espresso, music is a sensory experience that can stick with you long after it’s gone. Music doesn’t even need to be played out loud. Perhaps even reading the word “espresso” put ...

The hooks are really what keep listeners coming back to a song for more, sometimes decades after the song in question was released. That’s certainly the case for the following three rock songs from ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over and over?