As Christmas approaches, familiar melodies once again fill shopping centres, radio stations and streaming playlists. Despite thousands of festive songs released over the decades, only a select group ...

Good Friday morning in New York City, where the Village Halloween Parade's theme this year is, "It's a Potluck." Gothamist is funded by sponsors and member donations Gothamist is funded by sponsors ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

Johnny Paycheck was trying not to get disheartened by a long line of near-hits when he finally released what would become his first and only No. 1 song in the fall of 1977. Paycheck (born Donald ...

While eras and adversaries may come and go, there’s one constant in Taylor Swift’s discography: emotional track fives. It’s long been a tradition for that coveted spot to be reserved for the most ...

The streaming platform revealed its 500 most played songs, with Drake, The Weeknd and Post Malone also snagging a top five finish. By Nicole Fell Assistant Editor Apple Music has revealed that Ed ...

Apple Music has revealed that Ed Sheeran’s 2017 single, “Shape of You,” is its most played song. In celebration of the streaming platform’s 10th year anniversary, Apple Music has been revealing its ...

Ed Sheeran, the Weeknd and Drake are just a few of the artists topping Apple Music‘s Top 500 Streamed Songs list, honoring 10 years of the streaming service. Sheeran’s “Shape of You” is the ...

Apple Music has shared its 500 most-streamed songs of the decade, with Ed Sheeran leading the pack thanks to 12-week Billboard Hot 100-topper “Shape of You.” As announced Saturday (July 5), the ...

The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, saw the band deliver their fair share of blithe rock tunes. Each song on this record was easily digestible–as was much of mainstream rock at the time. The ...