(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from China and the U.S. has devised a relatively simple means for measuring the shear forces that exist between sheets of graphene and other materials. In their paper ...

NEW YORK — Jazz pianist Sir George Shearing, who wrote the standard "Lullaby of Birdland" and headed a famed quintet bearing his name, died Monday. He was 91. Dale Sheets, Shearing’s longtime manager, ...

Jazz virtuoso George Shearing, who was born blind in Britain to working class parents only to achieve world renown as a pianist and a composer in the United States, died on Monday at the age of 91.