Author: Emily Conover / Source: Science News For the first time, a quantum engine has outperformed its traditional equivalent, without any special tweaks to its environment. The device harnesses the weird physics of very small objects to produce more power than a standard, or classical, engine

Source: Neatorama English classical pianist Paul Barton performs classical piece on the piano for the gentle giants at the ElephantsWorld sanctuary in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. From CBS News: It all started when he and his wife first discovered the sanctuary, Elephants World, online, Barton

Author: Elena Goukassian / Source: Atlas Obscura In the summer of 1948, while visiting the 13th-century ruins of the Chaalis Abbey, just north of Paris, the architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret “was struck by the fine proportions of the door (that of the transept, as I remember).” Jeanneret,

Author: Anne Ewbank / Source: Atlas Obscura Just outside a Burger King on Market Street, San Francisco’s main thoroughfare, classical music plays day and night. Instead of the hits circa 2018, it’s more the hits circa 1718, from composers such as Vivaldi and Bach. For years, San Franciscans have

For many people, classical music is the preferred choice when it’s time to relax, read or sleep. The long, ornate compositions are certainly conducive to sleep in particular, as this woman at a concert by the North State Symphony in California found out with hilarious results. Performing the piece