You’re reading a report and trying to concentrate. The room is silent. But despite your best efforts to focus, a little snatch of melody – an “earworm” – keeps circling inside your head. Research ...

You’re reading a report and trying to concentrate. The room is silent. But despite your best efforts to focus, a little snatch of melody – an “earworm” – keeps circling inside your head. Research ...

Head tilted lazily towards the window on the train, I consciously resisted the urge to scroll on my phone, which I haphazardly charged before leaving for the concert. Instead, I surrendered my gaze to ...

Earworms, or Involuntary Musical Imagery, are short, catchy tunes that repeatedly play in the mind, affecting over 90% of people weekly. These musical intrusions are often triggered by recent exposure ...

I came upon the flyer by chance. Taped to a streetlight, its hand-drawn letters wavered slightly with a kind of charming, earnest immediacy that made me pause midstep. “Evanston Skate Jam,” it read. I ...

The songs that play in my ear without any music playing are many. I have to admit that I have a long playlist going in my mind. I am never bored with the earworms playing in my head. It may sound like ...

Sen. John Kennedy (LA-R) took the floor this week to compare the effects of recently recalled radioactive shrimp to … the Chestbursters from the “Alien” franchise? Kennedy made this comparison during ...

Bif Naked, Pamela Carolina Martinez, and Joshua Odjick will star in Lupe Q and the Galactic Earworms. The film is a sci-fi comedy about a Latinx punk band. Their music becomes Earth's only defense ...

We weren’t expecting much from Guardians of the Galaxy. And yet, weeks after release, it’s stuck in our brains like an earworm. It’s one of Zack’s favorite games of 2021, thanks in large part to its ...

That one-hit wonder that keeps repeating in your head might be an indication of your ability to sing accurately, according to a UB researcher who co-authored a paper that examined earworms. An earworm ...