Russia's Soma Laboratory has built a new instrument called Dvina that's inspired by the sounds of classical Hindu music. Vibrations from the strings are picked up by a powerful magnet buried inside ...

In an era of spiraling health care cost concerns, a new $500 surgical instrument developed at the University of Michigan is vying to take the place of a $2 million robot for certain minimally invasive ...

The triangle is an instrument so simple that its name is a description of its shape. It's easy to play but not easy to play well, as a Utah... How To Be A Professional Triangle Player In 17 Easy Steps ...

Last year, Brazil lost one of its most famous musicians: Naná Vasconcelos, who put an instrument called the berimbau on the world's musical map. It's a kind of bow with a gourd attached, and it is the ...

When Provincetown musician Roxanne Layton was six, her father encouraged her to take up the recorder. He was building a large schooner and intended to take her on a long voyage and thought a portable ...

We’ve covered construction of novel music instruments on these pages, and we’ve covered many people tearing down scientific instruments. But today we’ve got something that managed to cross over from ...

IN equipping the Physical Laboratory of University College, Dundee, I felt considerable difficulty in deciding on a spectrometer for accurate work; it was easy to get a simple instrument for ...

As Nova Scotians prepare to observe the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation, it’s important to honor the traditions and cultural practices of Indigenous communities. Among the most powerful ...

The participatory journalist George Plimpton did many things. He boxed against Sugar Ray Robinson. He tried his hand as a high wire circus performer. But he said the scariest thing he ever did was ...