For more than a century, pianists and music teachers have argued over whether a performer’s touch can actually change the tone color of a piano note — and now scientists say the answer is yes.…
MIT researchers discovered that the sound of falling droplets can shake rice seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate more quickly than seeds that are not exposed to the same sound vibrations.
When Scott Waitukaitis set out to understand a puzzling aspect of static electricity, he didn’t expect to find the answer in a substance colloquially known as “schmutz”.
