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Listen To The Sound Of Saturn’s Electromagnetic Energy
Sound and light have way more in common than you think, which is why it’s easy to turn light data, such as radio waves, into sound. This can make for some pretty incredible science communicating tools — just look up Jupiter’s whistlers, falling bomb sounds caused by the planet’s lightning; or the chirp of LIGO’s…
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This Scientist Is Turning Every Element In The Periodic Table Into Music
Materials scientists typically rely on their eyes to analyse data, but soon they could employ their ears as well. Setting the motions of molecules to music can help scientists identify hidden patterns in their data that might otherwise be too small, or occur over such short time scales that they’re easily missed by the human…
