The US National Science Foundation is planning to remove hundreds of ocean monitoring instruments from four sites in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Scientists use data from the observational network ...

Science of Sound: Seventeen centuries before the German Hornbostel-Sachs system, India's Natya Shastra had already sorted every musical instrument by what vibrates inside it, and a Bengali scholar ...

The musician, who is constantly on the lookout for rare instruments during his travels, hopes to spotlight the Senia ...

Seventeen centuries before the German Hornbostel-Sachs system, India's Natya Shastra had already sorted every musical ...

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The Trump administration has moved to significantly cut back an ocean monitoring system that scientists have relied on for ...

The Ocean Observatories Initiative, which provides crucial marine and climate data, is the administration's latest victim.

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About 1.3 billion light-years away, two massive black holes had merged, and the resulting shockwave—a gravitational wave—was strong enough for LIGO to detect the moment it washed over Earth. Since ...

The Trump administration is dismantling a $386 million network of more than 900 ocean sensors funded by the National Science ...