It’s been a long-held belief that absolute pitch - the ability to identify musical notes without reference - is a rare gift reserved for a select few with special genetic gifts or those who began ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

It’s a nearly ubiquitous human experience: you’re walking down the street, or cooking dinner, or writing an email, and you suddenly realize that a snippet of a song is looping in your head. You might ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Words, pitch, and rhythm. How do these three ...