Your music preferences are built from the songs you listened to when you were young, the unique vibrations of your skull and even how your brain waves groove along. All this helps determine when and ...

The Screaming Marmots aren't a rock band, but shrieks of the large rodents are telling scientists something about the animal nature of some music. Daniel Blumstein, a biologist at the University of ...

There's no accounting for taste—but if you want to blame anything on how you were raised, your taste in music could rank up there, a new study suggests. In music, chords can be broken down into many ...

Researchers have isolated some of the ways in which distorted and jarring music is so evocative, and they believe that the mechanisms are closely related to distress calls in animals. Ever wonder why ...

Take a second and think of your favorite song. Is it James Blunt's "You're beautiful"? Or maybe Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours"? Whatever tune you're thinking of, if it's a pop hit released in the past 40 ...