Although movie and game producers can now create computer-animated images of just about anything, the sounds made by those onscreen items still typically consist of recordings of real-world objects.

When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point to global headline. The claim that NASA tracked such a hyperfast visitor ...

Musical lodestar, creative anomaly: Jacques Auberger doesn’t look like anyone you’ve ever met. It’s not so much his sartorial bent—which is only moderately esoteric—as the hair on his head. If a ...