Putting the Higgs on paper

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

Playing in the Key of Science

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

Music to smash atoms to

Kate Simko’s ‘Music from the Atom Smashers’ (2009) is a beautiful and serene collection of tracks made as the soundtrack for the documentary ‘The Atom Smashers’ Simko is an American born electronic producer and DJ, who produces an interesting and

The Sounds of Science #01

LHC Sound Project In the first episode I explore the work scientists have been doing to turn the data from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern into sound. Through a process known as ‘sonification’ – data from the ATLAS experiment