Patrick Whelan, a Harvard Medical School lecturer who has researched music and the brain, puts some of it down to evolutionary biology. Early mammals relied heavily on hearing to avoid predators, the ...

Grab your neon leg warmers and get ready for a blast from the past! Join us as we count down our picks for the most unforgettable one-hit wonders of the 80s. From synth-pop sensations to hair metal ...

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Valentine’s Day often arrives wrapped in a narrow story: roses, candlelight, romantic dinners for two. But love rarely lives only there. More often, it shows up in kitchens, living rooms, classrooms, ...

Musical chills are pleasurable shivers or goosebump sensations that people feel when they resonate with the music they're listening to. They reduce stress and have beneficial side effects, but they ...

Mozart’s haunting ‘Lacrimosa’ from his famous Requiem, written in 1791 as the composer himself was in ailing health. The Requiem had been commissioned by an anonymous figure, and as Mozart’s health ...

Rankings vary by the many classical music analysts, but Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Jupiter Symphony is always highly regarded.

The proposed system’s small size makes it a powerful tool to combat stress in daily life using optimized playlists tuned to the user’s current emotional state. Most people are familiar with ‘musical ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze teamed with neuroscientists for a breakthrough in experiment design. The pianist Nicolas Namoradze wanted to record videos that would visualize how ...

A new study finds that non-musicians' brains are just as good as professionals' at integrating musical context and predicting melodies.

Taylor Swift premiered the music video for "Opalite" on Feb. 6 Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2024. Her work has ...

Playing Tetris could help reduce distressing memories of trauma, a trial has found. Health workers who played the classic ...