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Scientists Investigate Cause of 'Singing Dunes'

(PhysOrg.com) -- In more than 30 locations around the world, the phenomenon of singing sand dunes has intrigued explorers, tourists, and scientists. When an avalanche occurs or even when the sand is pushed ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 7 feature

Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through

Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

Fermi gamma-ray space telescope confirms puzzling preponderance of positrons

(PhysOrg.com) -- By finding a clever way to use the Earth itself as a scientific instrument, members of a SLAC-led research team turned the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope into a positron detector – and ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Mayan buildings may have operated as sound projectors

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists from Mexico say buildings built by the Maya people could have served as projection systems and amplifiers to deliver sounds over relatively large distances.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Dec 21, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Rare form of silver observed during routine calibration

What started out as an ordinary instrument calibration task using silver turned into research gold for scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Contradicting nearly 40 years of measurement history, ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Richest planetary system discovered (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using ESO's world-leading HARPS instrument have discovered a planetary system containing at least five planets, orbiting the Sun-like star HD 10180. The researchers also have tantalising ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (29) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Giant NASA balloon crashes in Australia

A giant NASA science balloon crashed during take-off in Australia Thursday, destroying its multi-million-dollar payload, toppling a large car and narrowly missing frightened observers.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 4

New phenomenon found in internal waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- Internal waves -- huge but nearly invisible ripples that occur in the oceans, the atmosphere and stars -- can play an important role in climate change and other processes, but there is plenty ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 28, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Picturing the Proton

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two theoretical physicists in the College of Liberal Art and Sciences and their colleagues are eager for the results of an experiment scheduled next fall at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Hawaiian hot spot has deep roots

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hawaii may be paradise for vacationers, but for geologists it has long been a puzzle. Plate tectonic theory readily explains the existence of volcanoes at boundaries where plates split apart ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Double engine for a nebula

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 8

Stellar family in crowded, violent neighborhood proves to be surprisingly normal

The massive Arches Cluster is a rather peculiar star cluster. It is located 25 000 light-years away towards the constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer), and contains about a thousand young, massive stars, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 04, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Stuck bolt, dead battery bedevil Hubble repairs

(AP) -- Spacewalkers' specially designed tools couldn't dislodge a balky bolt interfering with repairs Sunday at the Hubble Space Telescope, so they took an approach more familiar to people puttering around ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Let there be light: Camera hooked up for Hubble

(AP) -- A pair of spacewalking astronauts overpowered a stubborn bolt and successfully installed a new piano-sized camera in the Hubble Space Telescope on Thursday, the first step to making the observatory ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7

New microscope uses rainbow of light to image the flow of individual blood cells

Blood tests convey vital medical information, but the sight of a needle often causes anxiety and results take time. A new device developed by a team of researchers in Israel, however, can reveal much the same ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1 (pronounced minus one).

Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 include

Since the release of "Sandstorm", no instrumental has reached the top of the Billboard chart.

For more information about Instrumental, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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