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This Sculpture Is Controlled by Live Honeybees
Artist Wolfgang Buttress collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to create a giant, metallic hive
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How Engineers Got a Vinyl Record to Play in the Stratosphere
Fittingly, it took notes from Carl Sagan
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For Sale: 400 Awesome Vintage Boomboxes
A New Zealand aficionado is auctioning off his collection of iconic 1980s music machines
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The Cosmos Sings in This Fusion of Astrophysics and Music
The Hubble Cantata brings the stars down to earth
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Why VHS and Five Other Formats May Live Forever
The final VCRs will ship later this month, but if recent history is any indicator, it doesn’t mean the VHS format will vanish for good
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This Classical Mandolinist Makes Music With…Instagram?
“InstaConcerto for Mandolin and Orchestra” plays with a genre known more for its selfies than its chamber music
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Jane Austen’s Music Collection Is Now Online
Play piano like a Darcy with nearly 600 Austen-approved tunes
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Researchers Travel to the Amazon to Find Out if Musical Taste is Hardwired
Members of the Tsimane tribe showed no preference between consonant and dissonate tones, meaning Western music is probably not biologically based
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Here’s What Happens When Neuroscientists and Designers Team Up to Explain Scientific Research
A new interdisciplinary project results in a moving sculpture, an animated piece, a song that evolves and more
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Photographer Captures the Enduring Grandeur of the Steinway Piano Factory
Christopher Payne’s new book strikes a chord
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“Armenian Public Radio” Brings Nirvana Attitude to the Folklife Festival
An Armenian-American trio performs traditional folk songs with a modern American sensibility
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Steven Spielberg on Why He Made The BFG
The director talks about the new adaptation, the cast and having John Williams compose the score of the film
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What Happens in the Brain When Music Causes Chills?
The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others
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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Bollywood
Learn the history of Mumbai’s iconic “cut-to” Switzerland shot
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For Rolling Stones Fans, This Book Is a Dream Come True
Journalist and author Rich Cohen first covered the Stones on tour in the 90s. Now he revisits that trip and the band’s epic history
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‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins the War Against Bots
Ticket-buying bots are snatching up seats and jacking up the price of concert and theater tickets
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Inside the Effort to Digitize Medieval Monks’ Chants
Scanning and interpreting centuries-old manuscripts is a challenge because musical notation wasn’t formalized yet
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Tune Into the Smashing Sounds of Large Hadron Collider Data in Real Time
Grooves made by groundbreaking physics
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To Really Appreciate Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet, You Gotta Play it. Just Ask Wynton Marsalis
It’s not always the white-glove treatment; some artifacts live on through performance
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