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Lost Notes celebrates the life of Ruth Dolphin, who went from being a terrified widow with four kids to the mother of an LA musical empire.

When a total solar eclipse sweeps across the United States on 8 April, scientists and enthusiasts alike will be there to document it.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — With a hot topic of artificial intelligence for starters, Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy ushers in its spring 2024 Star Party series this week with the first of four events being held this semester on campus. Professor John Wallin will be presenting “Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy” starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 2...

Denny Larson, a woodworker from Winlock, doesn’t need Dr. Seuss’s Lorax as an interpreter.   “I believe the tree talks to me. I believe wood talks to me,” Larson …

Radio JOVE is equipping citizen scientists with small radio receivers and training them to observe radio waves from Earth’s ionosphere.

As energy spews from the sun and travels to Earth, it will interact with a special layer in our atmosphere.

Continuing on his biography-a-week-plan, Gino Blefari discusses the man who inspired the project: Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Twelve MTSU undergraduates will head out both close to home, across the country and beyond this summer after qualifying for prestigious National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates, or REU, grant placements.   Oscar Allen will research physics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham.  Ian Alcox will research computational physics at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center...

Rhythm and blues, also called rhythm & blues or R&B, term used for several types of postwar African-American popular music, as well as for some white rock music derived from it. The term was coined by Jerry Wexler in 1947, when he was editing the charts at the trade journal Billboard and found that the record companies issuing Black popular music considered the chart names then in use (Harlem Hit Parade, Sepia, Race) to be demeaning. The magazine changed the chart’s name in its June 17, 1949,...

Crossroads | September 2 and 4, 2022