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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.

Sometimes something sounds strange at first but turns out to be surprisingly amazing. This experience is one of those things you simply have to try to understand why people love it so ...

If you were to ask me what I call the process of opening windows and doors of my house to let cross-breezes of fresh air in and stale air out, I’d probably say, “I don’t know. Airing out the house?” ...

Burping a house is based on the German practice of 'lüften,' where you open all the windows, so cross ventilation lets the inside air escape and the outside air enter. Burping a house is based on the ...

Airing out your house has become a trend on social media, labeled by American wellness influencers as "house burping. But the origins of this practice go way back: "lüften" is the German tradition of ...

Back in 2022, astronomers were puzzled by a so-called “tidal disruption event” (TDE), dubbed AT2018hyz, that had faded when it was first noticed three years earlier, only to unexpectedly reanimate and ...

Recently, the German term “lüften” has been circulating on social media and trending on Google. The term refers to the practice of opening windows and doors to replace stale indoor air with outdoor ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) William Bahnfleth, a professor of architectural engineering at Penn State, has ...