Spider silk is turning out to be a remarkably versatile material. Aside from having a higher heat conductivity than any other organic matter and proteins for inserting genes into cells, strings from a ...

Watch how the violin and string instruments make varieties of sound and music. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, introduces the violin and other ...

Forty-five years ago, as a freshman in college, Cal Meineke was poking around a music department storage room and came across a rare Tyrolean violin made in the 17th century by the German Matthias ...

More than 300 spiders were used to generate the thousands of strands of silk making up each string A Japanese researcher has used thousands of strands of spider silk to spin a set of violin strings.

The micronium is a musical instrument with strings a millionth of an inch thick, and thanks to some nifty engineering it’s the tiniest instrument ever producing audible notes. This really is the world ...

What do you do when you’re performing a stirring violin solo before a concert crowd, and a string on your instrument suddenly breaks? That’s what happened with violinist Ray Chen, performing Thursday ...

A stringless violin is set to bring emotion and pathos to that most soulless of art forms: computerised music. Electronic musicians like to play their instruments into a computer using a Musical ...