There is no doubt that smartphone- and tablet-based apps have had a huge impact on music creation. Examples of note include commuters on a New York subway train being treated to a band performing ...

The United Kingdom-led Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) instrument on board the Herschel Space Observatory has made its first astronomical observations, with spectacular results. The ...

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) instrument powered on and opened its cover to scan the Earth for the first time, resulting in a "first light" image of the Western ...