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Technology

Kagami review: Mixed-reality gig brings dead headliner back to life

Kagami, a mixed-reality concert at this year's Manchester International Festival, shows the fresh challenges and possibilities of state-of-the-art tech

Culture

Mind

Which countries will do well at Eurovision 2023 – according to science

News

Cosmo Sheldrake

Comment

Wild Wet World and Torus review: Transmuting obscure worlds into music

Culture

Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler

Health

Ludwig von Beethoven’s DNA reveals he probably died of liver damage

News

Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

Humans

Don’t Miss: Innervate, an EP reflecting on epilepsy by Liza Bec

Culture

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Life

Male and female gibbons sing duets in time with each other

News

Double exposure Image of Liza Bec, a composer living with music-triggered epilepsy

Video

Liza Bec: The composer living with music-triggered epilepsy

Video

Dancing Rat

Video

Rats bop to the beat of Lady Gaga, Queeen and Mozart, just like humans

Video

Low-frequency sounds make you dance more

Video

All about that bass: Low-frequency sounds make you dance more

Video

Young woman playing violin solo on stage

Physics

Phantom notes played by violins turn out to be a real sound

For hundreds of years it's been known that a mysterious third note can be heard when playing two notes together on a violin – now we know why

News

Humans

Don't Miss: In Plain Sight, an exhibition about visual perception

Culture

Humans

Japanese and English language folk songs evolved in the same way

News

Technology

Beatles documentary Get Back used custom AI to strip unwanted sound

News

Technology

Sisters with Transistors review: Brilliant electronic music pioneers

Culture