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 ...

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Cheers to science for this one. We've all been there, and we've all said it. "I can't get this stupid song out of my head now." Whether it's a song we heard in a store while shopping, a song someone ...

“I hate this song! Why won’t it stop playing in my head?” Earworms can be maddening—those songs that get stuck, playing over and over in your head. They can be commercial jingles (some of the worst ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. You know that feeling when you just can’t get a song out of your head—just a short part of it playing over and over?