An ancient tree branch hollowed out by termites and a finely carved wooden violin—on the surface, they couldn’t be more different. But in the hands of William Barton and Ghetto Classics, these ...

Warner Recabaren is telling me one of the Australian origin stories of the didgeridoo, as he remembers it. It begins with a group of guys sitting around a campfire. One of them throws a stick on the ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Once a year scientists gather in Boston to celebrate the quirky and absurd in science. This year's Ig Nobel ceremony was no exception, with two prizes going to research that discovered old men really ...