Music can help us heal, even though nobody’s quite sure why. But that’s what it did for Erin Spencer, a Colorado Springs flutist and composer, who was so inspired by memorials and a vigil for the ...

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The Sunken Garden is a geometric marvel, with perfectly manicured hedges and colorful blooms arranged in patterns so precise they could make a mathematician weep with joy. It’s the kind of garden that ...

What I am looking at is not just the most powerful computer in the world, but technology pivotal to financial security, ...

Another world chess title will be up for grabs next month after the launch of the first official FIDE Freestyle Chess World Championship, expanding the sport’s growing elite calendar beyond the ...

Camerata Pacifica Founder/Artistic Director Adrian Spence, who established the acclaimed Santa Barbara-based international chamber music collective in 1990, has been named to Musical America’s ...

Jazz, that most American of idioms, has a cozy winter home in Miami, with festivals, series and individual concerts ...

Living cells pay a hidden energy price not just to run chemical reactions, but to keep them on track and block all the ...

There are “costs of life” that mechanical physics cannot calculate. A clear example is the energy required to keep specific ...

Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

Light is usually described using quantum mechanics when phenomena like entanglement enter the picture. But a new paper shows ...