Sweet corn is one of the few crops for which insect pests drive most of the pest management program. A number of caterpillar pests attack sweet corn, infesting ears and rendering the ear and the whole ...

Ever had a song get stuck in your head for a long period of time? An ‘earworm’ wiggles its way into your consciousness as a song—or more likely, a verse or two of one—with no plan of exit, leaving you ...

We've all had a tune linger in our heads for much longer than we'd like. Here's what, exactly, earworms are—and what you can do to get rid of them. As I write this, I have a Bob Seger song stuck in my ...

Like a good cup of espresso, music is a sensory experience that can stick with you long after it’s gone. Music doesn’t even need to be played out loud. Perhaps even reading the word “espresso” put ...

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 ...

You got a song stuck in your head? Earworms are music and memory at work. Here's why we get them and how to get rid of them. https://p.dw.com/p/4pMRv We tend to think ...

Kelly Jakubowski has received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for this research. There are a variety of reasons why a song might appear as an earworm that have little to do with the music itself.

For a couple months leading up to Christmas, we’re all infected with a pernicious scourge: earworms. Sounds like a bloodsucking parasite, but “earworm” (which comes from a translation of the German ...

There are some songs that just beg to become embedded in your brain. "It's a Small World." "My Sharona." "YMCA." Even a die-hard Village People fan is bound to get a little annoyed the 70-millionth ...

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 ...