I’m posting two little audio pieces to mark the end of NASAs space shuttle program which will (with any luck) enter its final mission today with the launch of Atlantis (STS-135) in a few hours. The first was produced for the latest Imperial College I,Science podcast and features science writer and producer Piers Bizony speaking … Continue reading »
Dark Energy So most of our universe (over 70%) is made up of something called Dark Energy. We can’t see it and we don’t really know what it is… Matter – everything that makes up me, you, planets and stars – appears to make up only a very small fraction of the universe, about 4%. … Continue reading »
Looking into the unconscious mind Using a new imaging method scientists from the University of Manchester have constructed a three-dimensional sequence of the brain as it loses consciousness. The small study used a new technique called ‘functional electrical impedance tomography of evoked response’ (fEITER), which is basically a new way of measuring changes in the … Continue reading »
I mentioned in a previous post that no space shuttle has ever been fully photographed whilst docked with the International Space Station. However NASA has released today landmark portraits of Endeavour and the ISS taken by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli on the 23rd of May whilst returning to Earth in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. This image was … Continue reading »
Physicist Lily Asquith recently wrote an interesting and accessible piece on quarks, which was featured on Jon Butterworth’s excellent Life and Physics blog. Included within the post was an interesting depiction of physicist Murray Gell-Mann, as provided by illustrator and artist Toya Walker. Toya also happens to be the individual behind the imaginative and colourful imagery associated with the … Continue reading »
Earlier today, the US Space Shuttle Endeavour launched successfully on its final mission – it is now currently en route to the International Space Station where it will be delivering the $2bn Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer. It will also be carrying a bunch of baby squid. After 30 years of the US Space Shuttle programme, the Americans will have … Continue reading »
An Interview With Jeff Oster After discovering the LHC sound project last year I’ve been on the look out for artists who have taken these sounds and used them to make music. So recently I was very excited when I came across a track called “Particles of God“ because not only did it feature these bizarre … Continue reading »
We had a great time playing our hand picked sounds of science at Dazed Live on Saturday – thanks to Chris from Super/Collider for inviting us on! The show has now been uploaded to Mixcloud so give it a listen! – also on the show is music from Bright Star Catalogue and interviews with the likes … Continue reading »
Our response to sound and noise are influenced heavily by the psychological associations we have with them. Hospitals and their internal soundscapes obviously carry very negative connotations and in the case of young children these negative associations can lead to increased levels of distress and fear. However the reverse of this is also true, certain … Continue reading »
EchoBank In this Episode I visit Dr Kate Jones at the Zoological Society of London to find out about a bat call reference library they’re developing called ‘Echobank’ which is being used in conjunction with the iBats monitoring program. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London are using Echobank to teach a neural network to identify … Continue reading »
