Certain applications seem just about impossible for plastic to replace traditional materials. Until today, I figured that "trumpet" belonged on that list. Then I ran across a story from The Telegraph ...

This school in Tipton has been trying out the UK's first trumpet made completely from plastic. Trumpets are normally made out of brass and the company who made the plastic trumpet spent a really long ...

SOWETO, South Africa The 94,700-seat Soccer City Stadium is shaped like a calabash, a gourd used as a cooking pot. When the World Cup opens here Friday, though, the stadium will sound like a giant, ...