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The pipe organ is typically associated with formal concert halls, church music and traditional works by Baroque composers like Bach. But one musician, Anna Lapwood, is broadening the instrument’s ...

Country music star Eric Church delivered the 2026 Spring Commencement address at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill this weekend, giving the graduates a heartfelt message about life after ...

The xenomorph from the Alien franchise is one of the most legendary creatures in cinema history. Now it’s the star of FX’s series Alien: Earth too. Many filmmakers have put xenomorphs on screen and ...

Violin makers, aka luthiers, traditionally learn from hands-on experience how to craft parts and select materials to shape an instrument’s final sound. MIT engineers hope to streamline that ...

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What a great title. Antahkarana – the latest instalment of The Three Seas’ 13-year voyage into a previously uncharted fusion of traditional Bengali music, jazz, dub, pop and more – is Sanskrit for ...