The virtuoso demands that composers placed on musicians at the end of the 1800s were but a foretaste of things to come in the twentieth century. Members of the orchestra were complaining that the music of contemporary composers was unplayable because...

A synthesizer (or synthesiser) is generally any kind of electronic musical instrument, or electronic device capable of producing or manipulating audio tones, such as musical notes, through audio signal processing. The term originates from the Greek...

Aft I's introduction is like that of any Eminem album - declaratory yet humorous. Their first song, "Runnin' This," shows their courage not only with bold lyrics, but also with an electrically charged background, and then the album proceeds to the club-ready hit "Lil' Momma."...

It's another step in the quest to create artificial organisms: Scientists have synthesized the complete DNA of a type of bacteria. The experiment, published online Thursday by the journal Science, isn't a living germ, just its genetic structure.But scientists from Maryland's J. Craig Venter Institute...

Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who has been confined to a wheelchair for most of his adult life, expects weightlessness to feel like "bliss" when he goes on a "zero-gravity" flight Thursday aboard a refitted jet."For someone like me whose muscles don't work very well, it will...

The government said Thursday it had warned the world's largest maker of generic drugs and 19 other companies that they are illegally selling migraine medicines without federal approval.The Food and Drug Administration said the 20 warning letters were part of an effort to halt the...