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An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a -1 (pronounced minus one).

Instrumentals that have reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 include

Since the release of "Sandstorm", no instrumental has reached the top of the Billboard chart.

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WISE Is Chilling Out

WISE Is Chilling Out

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...


Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking

Advertisers face resistance to on-line tracking

Technology / Internet

created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Campaigners are stepping up efforts to curb online tracking of Internet use by firms that deliver adverts tailored to the specific interests of consumers, as polls reveal widespread unease with the practice.


Laws regulating web privacy vary greatly around the world

Experts meet to hash out web privacy rules

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hundreds of privacy experts from around the world met in Madrid on Wednesday for a three-day conference which aims to arrive at a global standard for the protection of personal data.


Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box

Opening up a colorful cosmic jewel box

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Star clusters are among the most visually alluring and astrophysically fascinating objects in the sky. One of the most spectacular nestles deep in the southern skies near the Southern Cross ...


Music makes you smarter

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Regularly playing a musical instrument changes the anatomy and function of the brain and may be used in therapy to improve cognitive skills.


LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

LCLS: The World's Largest Laser Writer?

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While not the smallest lettering ever created, the tiny initials "LCLS" have been written with what may be the world's most potent pen. Etched into boron carbide, a super-hard substance used ...


First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare

First Test of New X-ray Laser Strips Neon Bare

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- It takes a lot of energy to strip all ten electrons from an atom of neon. Doing it from the inside out, knocking away the most-closely-held, innermost electrons first, is an even rarer feat. ...


Mars

Telltale tells story of winds at Phoenix landing site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Wind speeds and directions were measured for the first time in the Mars polar region using the Phoenix lander’s Telltale instrument. Astronomers recorded Easterly winds of approximately 15-20 kilometres per ...


Carbon copying the 'Stradivarius' sound

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's every violinmaker's dream to produce an instrument to rival the sound of a Stradivarius but now researchers at The University of Nottingham are trying to do just that… using acoustic physics and carbon ...


Danaher buying MDS, Life Technologies unit

Technology / Business

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Danaher Corp. said Wednesday it will shed about twice as many existing jobs and plants as previously announced and also buy a global provider of medical instruments to analyze molecules.


Lost sounds of the past brought to life

Lost sounds of the past brought to life (w/ Video, Audio)

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Salpinx, barbiton, aulos, syrinx. Never heard them? Never heard of them? Neither had anyone else, for centuries. Until now.


Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe ...


A look into the hellish cradles of suns and solar systems

A Look into the Hellish Cradles of Suns and Solar Systems

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

The dense star cluster RCW 38 glistens about 5500 light years away in the direction of the constellation Vela (the Sails). Like the Orion Nebula Cluster, RCW 38 is an "embedded cluster", in that the nascent ...


GOES-O Releases First Solar Image

GOES-O Releases First Solar Image

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 3

GOES-14, formerly GOES-O, has achieved another significant milestone with the release of the first formal Solar Image from the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI).


Double engine for a nebula

Double engine for a nebula

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new image, showing a very rich field of stars towards the Carina arm of the Milky Way, is centred on the star HD 87643, a member of the exotic class of B[e] stars [1]. It is part of a ...