According to the World Health Organization, 10 percent of all medical products in developing countries are substandard or falsified. Engineers have developed a sensor to test for real medicine based ...

A bicycle wheel with guitar strings, a touch-operated synth, and the “Demon Box” were just a few of the new instruments on show at Georgia Tech’s Guthman Musical Instrument Competition this weekend.

The crew over at Teague Labs was talking about musical instruments and how digital music creation seems to get bogged down under user interfaces littered with increasing numbers of buttons, knobs, and ...

What are the easiest instruments to learn for a child? As a parent, by now, you would know kids have excellent aptitude for learning new things. Playing a musical instrument is a sure way of putting ...

Under the dim lights Saturday night at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center for the Arts, Keith Groover held his breath. Groover knew his home-brewed music machine, The Glide, had been well-received by judges ...

Last year, Brazil lost one of its most famous musicians: Naná Vasconcelos, who put an instrument called the berimbau on the world's musical map. It's a kind of bow with a gourd attached, and it is the ...

At the heart of many of the world’s musical instruments is the same, simple component—a string stretched tight between two points. Plucked, bowed, or struck, each of an instrument’s strings creates ...

This is the second article in a series imploring STEM workers, students, and entrepreneurs to learn to create music. The first article explained why playing an instrument or producing music has many ...