Important material properties can be explained at the level of quantum physics - for example, whether a material conducts electricity or not. Analysing such quantum states has now revealed that there ...

Some materials let electricity pass through them easily. These materials are known as electrical conductors. Metal is used in plugs to allow electricity to transfer from the wall socket ...

AC/DC fans are discovering that a sewing machine inspired the ’70s rock band’s name. While the group’s catchy tunes like “Highway to Hell” and “You Shook Me All Night Long” are still ...

Scientists have developed a hybrid material that switches between conducting and insulating states while maintaining ...

moment — jaws surely dropped when Rita Hayworth turned 65, which is the precise age she became soon after Stipe’s band, R.E.M., released “Murmur,” its first album — but there is ...

Garth Hudson, the stoic multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the Canadian roots-rock group the Band, died Tuesday at a nursing facility in his adopted hometown of Woodstock, N.Y. He was 87.

Garth Hudson in 1969. The Band’s songwriter and guitarist Robbie Robertson called him “far and away the most advanced musician in rock ’n’ roll.”Credit...David Attie/Getty Images ...

A woman was found dead during a conductor’s midday routine check on board a Queens train over the weekend, cops said. The lifeless woman – believed to be between 50 and 60 years old and ...

From the starting point of The Konrads, the starman hopped from band to band, determined to capture his dream. His next stop-off was with a group called the King Bees, which, through a chain of events ...