For years, the icy waters off Antarctica have served as a recording studio for the biggest singers in the world: blue whales. Their songs, picked up by sensors bobbing along the surface, tell a story ...

Which rock band appears more often than any other on Spotify playlists featuring "drinking songs"? That would be none other than AC/DC! Whiskey retailer Flask and Barrel recently analyzed 23,425 ...

A global study reveals why songs from our teenage years leave a lasting emotional and mnemonic imprint on us. This research explores the neurodevelopmental mechanisms that make music from adolescence ...

New scientific data claims that two particular types of music could lessen the symptoms of motion sickness in individuals who experience the condition. In September, Frontiers, a publisher of ...

Genetic predispositions guide population-specific song learning in wild birds, shows new research from Stockholm University. By studying adult pied flycatchers that had been translocated as eggs from ...

Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but Yale researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by people everywhere with one notable exception ...

Researchers analyzed more than 225,000 tracks on Spotify to find the top sleep songs. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark analyzed 225,626 tracks from 985 ...

Generations of fans probably knew this already, but science has now confirmed that AC/DC is the top rock band for drinking songs. They notched four of the Top 10 rock songs in a study conducted by ...

Can a machine predict the song of the summer? Can it weed out forgettable flops? If so, such a technology could reduce music production costs, curate public playlists and even render judges on ...

We’re all familiar with creating workout playlists, but what about creating one for sleeping? When you think about what might help you get to sleep, it’s often soothing sounds like ocean waves or ...

4E’s Study Sixteen from thehoya on 8tracks Radio. Studying sucks. Luckily for you, music doesn’t. And for those of you whose friends are distracting you by whispering in Pierce (which is forbidden, ...