Science Archives: 12/2025

Christmas - XMAS - General - Music - Christmas Music

How the world’s catchiest Christmas song can destroy your life, according to science

The most wonderful time of the year?

Callum MacHattie

Dec 24, 2025

Charts - Official Charts - Gold - Platinum - Music - General - Single

The two things every song needs to be a hit, according to science

Understanding how music activates our pleasure system in the brain.

Dale Maplethorpe

Dec 19, 2025

Singing - Singer - Vocal - Vocalist - Microphone - Music - General - Generic

The one singer with the greatest vocal range, according to science

Science has spoken (or sung).

Dale Maplethorpe

Dec 17, 2025

Kate Bush - Musician - 1980's

The Kate Bush song guaranteed to give you chills, according to science

An emotional song.

Dale Maplethorpe

Dec 17, 2025

The science behind why music gives some people goosebumps

The science behind why music gives some people goosebumps

The human brain is a strange thing.

Dec 16, 2025

The one song guarenteed to make people cry, accoring to science

The one song guarenteed to make people cry, accoring to science

A certified tearjerker.

Dec 10, 2025

70 per cent of people prefer live music to sex, new survey reveals - 2025

The worst decade for music, according to science

The least diverse or the most iconic?

Dec 4, 2025