A lively San Frnacisco performance by Attacca Quartet and Grammy-winning composer Caroline Shaw blended classical roots, pop ...

Tension Formula: T = (UW × (2 × L × F)²) / 386.088 — where T = tension in lbs, UW = unit weight of string (lbs/in), L = scale length in inches, F = frequency in Hz. This is the industry-standard ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

This video demonstrates how to use Lagrange multipliers to find the tension in a falling yo-yo. By applying constraints and generalized coordinates, you’ll see how this powerful method reveals both ...

I tried to play a 12-string guitar, and it was a completely different experience than I expected. From the thicker neck and higher string tension to the massive, shimmering sound, this video explores ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and top Iranian officials exchanged dueling threats on January 2 as widening economic protests swept across parts of the Islamic Republic, further escalating tensions ...

THE ALL ENGLAND CLUB, LONDON — On the first day of Wimbledon, Ed Day, a university student from just outside London, ran 17.5 kilometers across the All England Club. Those kilometers took him from the ...

String theory has long been presented as physicists' best candidate for describing the fundamental nature of the Universe. Yet, at the beginning of the 21st century, it became apparent that most ...

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String theory's equations give rise to a near infinite variety of potential universes in a 'landscape.' This landscape is surrounded by a 'swampland' of solutions that are incompatible with any ...

On a damp April evening, the kind that seems to hush Princeton’s campus into a reverent stillness, Yo-Yo Ma strode onto the stage with a cello in his hand at McCarter Theatre, all warmth and easy ...

On April 11 at Boston’s Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s second concert of the “Decoding Shostakovich” series opened with a simple, devastating dedication. “To anyone who has experienced ...