"Supervisor Barger's iPhone auto-delete setting is set to 30 days. She also manually deletes her texts sometimes," Barger spokesperson Helen Chavez Garcia said last month.

The violin is a microscopic image rather than a playable instrument and has not been officially confirmed as the world's smallest violin, the university said. To create it, ...

Bass wasn’t the only one deleting texts during the firestorms. Supervisor Barger did too Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger routinely deletes her text messages, her spokesperson said.

Physicists at Loughborough University claim to have created the world’s smallest violin. And while this platinum-base violin isn’t a playable instrument, it’s undeniably, incredibly small.

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The phrase “the world’s smallest violin” is dripping with sarcasm and reserved for disdain, but for some researchers it’s a mark of pride.

It is a project unlikely to elicit much sympathy, but physicists at Loughborough University have laboured to create the world’s smallest violin. The tiny instrument, which can only be seen under ...